RHSA-2023:4347 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: libeconf security update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 9

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · August 1, 2023

Updated · November 22, 2025

Topic

An update for libeconf is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Libeconf is a highly flexible and configurable library to parse and manage key=value configuration files. It reads configuration file snippets from different directories and builds the final configuration file from it.

Security Fix(es):

  • libeconf: stack-based buffer overflow in read_file() in lib/getfilecontents.c (CVE-2023-22652)

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2023:4347 — Red Hat Security Advisory: libeconf security update | PulseLinux