RHSA-2023:4524 — Security Advisory

An update for libcap is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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.

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.