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.
Exploits (1)
nomisec
WORKING POC
by Pazhanivelmani · poc
https://github.com/Pazhanivelmani/external_libcap-Android10_r33_CVE-2023-2603
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209113
Exploit, Technical Description
https://www.x41-dsec.de/static/reports/X41-libcap-Code-Review-2023-OSTIF-Final-Report.pdf
Broken Link, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IPEGCFMCN5KGCFX5Y2VTKR732TTD4ADW/
Broken Link, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EZ57ICDLMVYEREXQGZWL4GWI7FRJCRQT/
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0113
EPSS Percentile
78.4%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-190
Status
published
Products (6)
debian/debian_linux
11.0
fedoraproject/fedora
37
fedoraproject/fedora
38
libcap_project/libcap
< 2.69
redhat/enterprise_linux
8.0
redhat/enterprise_linux
9.0
Published
Jun 06, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026