RHSA-2023:4347 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: libeconf security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
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.