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Fedora 38: Critical Integer Overflow and Memory Leak Resolution in libcap

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Calendar Grey November 30, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Boost the security of Fedora 38 by updating libcap to mitigate issues such as buffer overflows and memory corruption.
Backport fix for CVE-2023-2602 and CVE-2023-2603

Summary

libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e (formerly POSIX 6)

draft 15 capabilities.

Update Information:

Backport fix for CVE-2023-2602 and CVE-2023-2603

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora memory leak integer overflow libcap

Change Log

* Wed Nov 22 2023 Carlos Rodriguez-Fernandez - 2.48-7 - Backport fix for CVE-2023-2602 and CVE-2023-2603

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2210635 - CVE-2023-2603 libcap: Integer Overflow in _libcap_strdup() [fedora-38] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2210635 [ 2 ] Bug #2210643 - CVE-2023-2602 libcap: Memory Leak on pthread_create() Error [fedora-38] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2210643

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-5911638116' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: libcap
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 2.48
Release: 7.fc38
URL: https://sites.google.com/site/fullycapable/
Summary: Library for getting and setting POSIX.1e capabilities

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora memory leak integer overflow libcap

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