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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-63381

Libevent is an event notification library. Prior to 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha, libevent has a use-after-free in buffer.c when evbuffer_add_buffer_referen...

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Libevent is an event notification library. Prior to 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha, libevent has a use-after-free in buffer.c when evbuffer_add_buffer_reference processes an output buffer whose out_total_len is zero. evbuffer_free_all_chains frees the initial empty chain without resetting outbuf->first, outbuf->last, or outbuf->last_with_datap, and APPEND_CHAIN_MULTICAST subsequently dereferences the dangling chain pointer. A caller that can drive this buffer state can cause memory corruption or a process crash. This issue is fixed in versions 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS libevent
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.1.8-stable-4ubuntu0.1~esm1"}]}]
Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS libevent
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.1.11-stable-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"}]}]
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS libevent
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.1.12-stable-1ubuntu0.1"}]}]
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS libevent
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.1.12-stable-9ubuntu2.1"}]}]
Ubuntu:26.04:LTS libevent
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.1.12-stable-10ubuntu0.1"}]}]

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