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libcap — security advisory
A vulnerability was found in the pthread_create() function in libcap. This issue may allow a malicious actor to use cause __real_pthread_create() to return an error, which can exhaust the process memory.
- Products
- libcap
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.61-r1, 2.64-r1, 2.66-r1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-2602
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 14:55 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A vulnerability was found in the pthread_create() function in libcap. This issue may allow a malicious actor to use cause __real_pthread_create() to return an error, which can exhaust the process memory.
osv:ALPINE-CVE-2023-2602
libcap
Fixed versions: 2.61-r1
libcap
Fixed versions: 2.64-r1
libcap
Fixed versions: 2.66-r1
Complete source record
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