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Medium RLSA-2023:4524 2 CVEs

Moderate: libcap security update

Published Aug 24, 2023 · Updated Feb 5, 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 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 libcap 0:2.48-5.el8_8

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209113
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209114