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Medium ALSA-2023:5071 2 CVEs

Moderate: libcap security update

Published Sep 12, 2023 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

Libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e (formerly POSIX 6) draft 15 capabilities.

Security Fix(es):

* libcap: Integer Overflow in _libcap_strdup() (CVE-2023-2603)
* libcap: Memory Leak on pthread_create() Error (CVE-2023-2602)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 libcap 2.48-9.el9_2
AlmaLinux · 9 libcap-devel 2.48-9.el9_2

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2602
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2603
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2209113
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2209114
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-5071.html