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Mageia 8: MGASA-2023-0206 Urgent: Glibc Buffer Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey June 28, 2023
Dist Mageia Esm H88
The latest libcap updates resolve severe security flaws identified in Mageia, specifically related to memory handling.
A vulnerability was found in the pthread_create() function in libcap

Summary

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://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-2602

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-2603

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical memory issue libcap Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/libcap-2.46-1.1.mga8

Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Publication date: 28 Jun 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0205.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2023-2602, CVE-2023-2603

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical memory issue libcap Mageia

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