Bug 2520654 (CVE-2026-63383) - CVE-2026-63383 libevent: Libevent: Denial of Service via malformed RPC data
Summary: CVE-2026-63383 libevent: Libevent: Denial of Service via malformed RPC data
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-63383
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-20 18:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-28 03:01 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-20 18:04:52 UTC
Libevent is an event notification library. Prior to 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha, libevent can read beyond a contiguous evbuffer region in event_tagging.c when decode_tag_internal requests at most five bytes from evbuffer_pullup but iterates using the full logical buffer length. A fragmented evbuffer containing a six-byte malformed tag can therefore advance past the pullup window and trigger an out-of-bounds read, which can crash a process that decodes attacker-controlled tagged RPC data. This issue is fixed in versions 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha.


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