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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-63385

Libevent is an event notification library. Prior to 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha, libevent has two HTTP parsing weaknesses in http.c. evhttp_decode_uri_inte...

Original description

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Libevent is an event notification library. Prior to 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha, libevent has two HTTP parsing weaknesses in http.c. evhttp_decode_uri_internal decodes percent-encoded %00 bytes into literal NUL characters, which can cause downstream C string operations to truncate a path and bypass validation performed on a different representation. evhttp_header_is_valid_value also accepts obsolete line folding in header values containing carriage return or line feed characters, allowing a proxy and libevent to interpret headers differently and enabling header injection or access control bypass. The CRLF header acceptance is fixed in versions 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha, but the reviewed patches do not clearly remediate the URI NUL-truncation condition.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS libevent
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.0.21-stable-1ubuntu1.14.04.2+esm1"}]}]
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS libevent
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.0.21-stable-2ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1"}]}]
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"}]}]

References

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