Description
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.
Published: 2023-06-06
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: 1.2% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-4092-1 libcap2 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-34077 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6166-1 libcap2 vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6166-2 libcap2 vulnerability
History

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:15:00 +0000

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Debian Debian Linux
Fedoraproject Fedora
Libcap Project Libcap
Redhat Enterprise Linux Rhel Eus
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2025-12-02T20:20:34.959Z

Reserved: 2023-05-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-2603

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T06:26:09.726Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-06-06T20:15:13.187

Modified: 2025-12-02T21:15:51.163

Link: CVE-2023-2603

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-05-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-2603 - Bugzilla

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