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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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2535510
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-08-20 18:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-22 13:00 UTC (History)
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2026:68390 0 None None None 2026-09-16 21:23:59 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2026:68772 0 None None None 2026-09-17 20:46:19 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2026:69286 0 None None None 2026-09-21 11:11:57 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2026:69411 0 None None None 2026-09-21 13:52:57 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2026:69920 0 None None None 2026-09-22 08:30:01 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2026:70231 0 None None None 2026-09-22 13:00:28 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:67908 0 None None None 2026-09-16 11:09:51 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:67909 0 None None None 2026-09-16 11:48:32 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:67910 0 None None None 2026-09-16 12:59:20 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Jon Orris 2026-09-16 11:09:50 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2026:67908 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:67908

Comment 2 Jon Orris 2026-09-16 11:48:31 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Via RHSA-2026:67909 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:67909

Comment 3 Jon Orris 2026-09-16 12:59:19 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2026:67910 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:67910


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