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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-63383

Libevent is an event notification library. Prior to 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha, libevent can read beyond a contiguous evbuffer region in event_tagging.c w...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

Libevent is an event notification library. Prior to 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha, libevent can read beyond a contiguous evbuffer region in event_tagging.c when decode_tag_internal requests at most five bytes from evbuffer_pullup but iterates using the full logical buffer length. A fragmented evbuffer containing a six-byte malformed tag can therefore advance past the pullup window and trigger an out-of-bounds read, which can crash a process that decodes attacker-controlled tagged RPC data. This issue is fixed in versions 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 libevent
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.1.12-stable-8+deb12u1"}]}]
Debian:13 libevent
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.1.13-stable-1~deb13u1"}]}]
Debian:14 libevent
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.1.13-stable-1"}]}]

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