Low: libcap

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

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

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  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2023-2602

Mitre: CVE-2023-2602