Bug 2209113 (CVE-2023-2603) - CVE-2023-2603 libcap: Integer Overflow in _libcap_strdup()
Summary: CVE-2023-2603 libcap: Integer Overflow in _libcap_strdup()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-2603
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Depends On: 2210634 2210635 2210637 2210638 2210639 2210636
Blocks: 2207492
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Reported: 2023-05-22 16:54 UTC by juneau
Modified: 2023-08-08 08:19 UTC (History)
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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.
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2023:4524 0 None None None 2023-08-08 08:19:57 UTC

Description juneau 2023-05-22 16:54:28 UTC 
Original Report:

Source: libcap2
Version: 1:2.66-3
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil, Debian Security Team <team.org>

The following vulnerabilities were published for libcap2.

CVE-2023-2603[1]:
| LCAP-CR-23-02 (Large strings can confuse libcap's internal strdup code)

[1] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-2603
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-2603

fixed in 1:2.66-4
Comment 2 Sandipan Roy 2023-05-29 04:15:24 UTC 
Created libcap tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-37 [bug 2210634]
Affects: fedora-38 [bug 2210635]
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2023-08-08 08:19:56 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2023:4524 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4524
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