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Rocky Linux: RLSA-2023:4524 libcap security update

August 24, 2023
An update is available for libcap. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list

Summary

An update is available for libcap. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list


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.

RPMs

libcap-0:2.48-5.el8_8.aarch64.rpm

libcap-0:2.48-5.el8_8.i686.rpm

libcap-0:2.48-5.el8_8.src.rpm

libcap-0:2.48-5.el8_8.x86_64.rpm

libcap-debuginfo-0:2.48-5.el8_8.aarch64.rpm

libcap-debuginfo-0:2.48-5.el8_8.i686.rpm

libcap-debuginfo-0:2.48-5.el8_8.x86_64.rpm

libcap-debugsource-0:2.48-5.el8_8.aarch64.rpm

libcap-debugsource-0:2.48-5.el8_8.i686.rpm

libcap-debugsource-0:2.48-5.el8_8.x86_64.rpm

libcap-devel-0:2.48-5.el8_8.aarch64.rpm

libcap-devel-0:2.48-5.el8_8.i686.rpm

libcap-devel-0:2.48-5.el8_8.x86_64.rpm

References

No References

CVEs

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-2602

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-2603

Severity
Name: RLSA-2023:4524
Affected Products: Rocky Linux 8

Fixes

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

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


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