Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 560
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 560

Debian LTS: DLA-4092-1: libcap2 Security Advisory Updates

debian lts
Calendar Grey March 26, 2025
Dist Debian Esm H88
Three security issues fixed in libcap2 on Debian 11, improving local privilege management and preventing memory exhaustion.
It was discovered that there were three issues in libcap2, a library for managing kernel "capabilities"; that is, partitioning the powerful single "root" privilege into a set of di...

Summary

* CVE-2023-2602: A vulnerability was found in the pthread_create()
function. This issue could have allowed a malicious actor in order
to exhaust the system's memory.

* CVE-2023-2603: An issue was found in the _libcap_strdup function
which could have led to an integer overflow if the input string was
close to 4GiB.

* CVE-2025-1390: The pam_cap.so PAM module supports group names
starting with "@" but during parsing, configurations not starting
with "@" were incorrectly recognised as group names. This
user-group confusion may have resulted in unintended users being
granted an inherited capability set, potentially leading to
security risks. Attackers could have exploited this vulnerability
to achieve local privilege escalation on systems where
capability.conf was used to configure user inherited privileges by
constructing specific usernames.

For Debian 11 bullseye, these problems have been fixed in version
1:2.44-1+deb11u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libcap2 packages.

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Package: libcap2
Version: 1:2.44-1+deb11u1

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Related News

Your message here