ALAS2-2023-2136

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-2602  

libcap is vulnerable to a denial of service caused by the error handling in wrap_pthread_create() function, which will cause memory to be leaked in the case of an error. (CVE-2023-2602)

ALAS2-2023-2136


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2136
Advisory Release Date: 2023-07-17 17:39 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-07-19 22:20 Pacific
Severity: Low

Issue Overview:

libcap is vulnerable to a denial of service caused by the error handling in wrap_pthread_create() function, which will cause memory to be leaked in the case of an error. (CVE-2023-2602)


Affected Packages:

libcap


Issue Correction:
Run yum update libcap to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    libcap-2.54-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    libcap-static-2.54-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    libcap-devel-2.54-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    libcap-debuginfo-2.54-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64

i686:
    libcap-2.54-1.amzn2.0.2.i686
    libcap-static-2.54-1.amzn2.0.2.i686
    libcap-devel-2.54-1.amzn2.0.2.i686
    libcap-debuginfo-2.54-1.amzn2.0.2.i686

src:
    libcap-2.54-1.amzn2.0.2.src

x86_64:
    libcap-2.54-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    libcap-static-2.54-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    libcap-devel-2.54-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    libcap-debuginfo-2.54-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64