Recommended update for c-ares

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2020:0521-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP1
  • Basesystem Module 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 Business Critical Linux 15-SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.0

An update that has two fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for c-ares fixes the following issues:

c-ares version update to 1.15.0:

  • Add ares_init_options() configurability for path to resolv.conf file
  • Ability to exclude building of tools (adig, ahost, acountry) in CMake
  • Report ARES_ENOTFOUND for .onion domain names as per RFC7686 (bsc#1125306)
  • Apply the IPv6 server blacklist to all nameserver sources
  • Prevent changing name servers while queries are outstanding
  • ares_set_servers_csv() on failure should not leave channel in a bad state
  • getaddrinfo - avoid infinite loop in case of NXDOMAIN
  • ares_getenv - return NULL in all cases
  • implement ares_getaddrinfo

  • Fixed a regression in DNS results that contain both A and AAAA answers.

  • Add netcfg as the build requirement and runtime requirement.

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • Basesystem Module 15
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2020-521=1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP1
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP1-2020-521=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • c-ares-devel-1.15.0+20200117-3.5.1
    • libcares2-1.15.0+20200117-3.5.1
    • libcares2-debuginfo-1.15.0+20200117-3.5.1
    • c-ares-debugsource-1.15.0+20200117-3.5.1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • c-ares-devel-1.15.0+20200117-3.5.1
    • libcares2-1.15.0+20200117-3.5.1
    • libcares2-debuginfo-1.15.0+20200117-3.5.1
    • c-ares-debugsource-1.15.0+20200117-3.5.1

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