CVE-2023-2603

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.

Affected

libcap

CVSS v3.1 NVD

7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 47th percentile

Published

2023-06-06

Updated

2025-12-02

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• Pazhanivelmani/external_libcap-Android10_r33_CVE-2023-26030★ · 2024-11-12

Security advisories

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209113
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/…
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/…

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2016-6328
• CVE-2018-9338
• CVE-2023-1999
• CVE-2025-26443