RHSA-2024:0436 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: libcap security update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 9

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · January 25, 2024

Updated · June 25, 2026

Topic

An update for libcap is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support.

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

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)

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-2024:0436 — Red Hat Security Advisory: libcap security update | PulseLinux