CVE-2023-2603
7.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.1%
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.
How to fix CVE-2023-2603
To remediate CVE-2023-2603, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/libcap—upgrade to 2.61-r1 or later
- Debian/libcap2—upgrade to 1:2.44-1+deb11u1 or later
Is CVE-2023-2603 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 2.61-r1
- from 0, < 1:2.44-1+deb11u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |