Advisories » MGASA-2023-0205

Updated libcap packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 28 Jun 2023
Modification date: 28 Jun 2023
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2023-2602 , CVE-2023-2603

Description

A vulnerability was found in the pthread_create() function in libcap. This
issue may allow a malicious actor to use cause __real_pthread_create() to
return an error, which can exhaust the process memory. (CVE-2023-2602)

A vulnerability was found in libcap. This issue occurs in the _libcap_strdup()
function and can lead to an integer overflow if the input string is close
to 4GiB. (CVE-2023-2603)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31938
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/05/15/4
• https://sites.google.com/site/fullycapable/release-notes-for-libcap#h.iuvg7sbjg8pe
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/05/16/2
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6166-1
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-2602
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-2603

SRPMS

8/core

• libcap-2.46-1.1.mga8