Moderate.Use after free() in read_answer() when process_answer() may terminate a query such as after maximum attempts. This was causing the connection to be closed, but still possibly additional answers to be processed. This is a missed case from CVE-2025-31498.
Use after free will lead to crash / Denial of Service.Patch: https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/commit/714bf5675c541bd1e668a8db8e67ce012651e618.patch
Links: https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-jq53-42q6-pqr5
