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OESA-2023-1342 (CVE-2023-2602)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2023-06-10 11:05 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:05 – Source website
VLAI
Summary
libcap security update
Details

This is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e (formerly POSIX 6) draft 15 capabilities.

Security Fix(es):

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)

Severity
4.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
References
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  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "aarch64": [
          "libcap-devel-2.61-5.oe2203sp1.aarch64.rpm",
          "libcap-2.61-5.oe2203sp1.aarch64.rpm",
          "libcap-debugsource-2.61-5.oe2203sp1.aarch64.rpm",
          "libcap-debuginfo-2.61-5.oe2203sp1.aarch64.rpm"
        ],
        "noarch": [
          "libcap-help-2.61-5.oe2203sp1.noarch.rpm"
        ],
        "src": [
          "libcap-2.61-5.oe2203sp1.src.rpm"
        ],
        "x86_64": [
          "libcap-debuginfo-2.61-5.oe2203sp1.x86_64.rpm",
          "libcap-devel-2.61-5.oe2203sp1.x86_64.rpm",
          "libcap-debugsource-2.61-5.oe2203sp1.x86_64.rpm",
          "libcap-2.61-5.oe2203sp1.x86_64.rpm"
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "openEuler:22.03-LTS-SP1",
        "name": "libcap",
        "purl": "pkg:rpm/openEuler/libcap\u0026distro=openEuler-22.03-LTS-SP1"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.61-5.oe2203sp1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "severity": "Medium"
  },
  "details": "This is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e (formerly POSIX 6) draft 15 capabilities.\r\n\r\nSecurity Fix(es):\r\n\r\nA 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)\r\n\r\nA 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)",
  "id": "OESA-2023-1342",
  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:05:48Z",
  "published": "2023-06-10T11:05:48Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bulletin/detail.html?id=openEuler-SA-2023-1342"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2602"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2603"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.2",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "libcap security update",
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2023-2602",
    "CVE-2023-2603"
  ]
}



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