Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: libcap security update

An update for libcap is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring Syst...

libcap security update

An update is available for libcap. This update affects Rocky Linux 10. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list Libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e formerly POSIX 6 draft 1...

libcap: libcap: Privilege escalation via TOCTOU race condition in cap_set_file()

A flaw was found in libcap. A local unprivileged user can exploit a Time-of-check-to-time-of-use TOCTOU race condition in the capsetfile function. This allows an attacker with write access to a parent directory to redirect file capability updates to an attacker-controlled file. By doing so,...

RHEL 9 : libcap (RHSA-2026:21254)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:21254 advisory. Libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e formerly POSIX 6 draft 15 capabilities. Security Fixes: libcap: libcap: Privilege escalation vi...

libcap: libcap: Privilege escalation via TOCTOU race condition in cap_set_file()

A flaw was found in libcap. A local unprivileged user can exploit a Time-of-check-to-time-of-use TOCTOU race condition in the capsetfile function. This allows an attacker with write access to a parent directory to redirect file capability updates to an attacker-controlled file. By doing so,...

RHEL 9 : libcap (RHSA-2026:20595)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:20595 advisory. Libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e formerly POSIX 6 draft 15 capabilities. Security Fixes: libcap: libcap: Privilege escalation vi...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: libcap security update

An update for libcap is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

libcap: libcap: Privilege escalation via TOCTOU race condition in cap_set_file()

A flaw was found in libcap. A local unprivileged user can exploit a Time-of-check-to-time-of-use TOCTOU race condition in the capsetfile function. This allows an attacker with write access to a parent directory to redirect file capability updates to an attacker-controlled file. By doing so,...

libcap security update

An update is available for libcap. This update affects Rocky Linux 9. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list Libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e formerly POSIX 6 draft 15...

RLSA-2026:19346 Important: libcap security update

Libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e formerly POSIX 6 draft 15 capabilities. Security Fixes: libcap: libcap: Privilege escalation via TOCTOU race condition in capsetfile CVE-2026-4878 For more details about the security issues, including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments,...

RockyLinux 9 : libcap (RLSA-2026:19346)

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2026:19346 advisory. libcap: libcap: Privilege escalation via TOCTOU race condition in capsetfile CVE-2026-4878 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from th...

libcap: libcap: Privilege escalation via TOCTOU race condition in cap_set_file()

A flaw was found in libcap. A local unprivileged user can exploit a Time-of-check-to-time-of-use TOCTOU race condition in the capsetfile function. This allows an attacker with write access to a parent directory to redirect file capability updates to an attacker-controlled file. By doing so,...

Important: libcap security update

Libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e formerly POSIX 6 draft 15 capabilities. Security Fixes: libcap: libcap: Privilege escalation via TOCTOU race condition in capsetfile CVE-2026-4878 For more details about the security issues, including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments,...

ALSA-2026:19130 Important: libcap security update

Libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e formerly POSIX 6 draft 15 capabilities. Security Fixes: libcap: libcap: Privilege escalation via TOCTOU race condition in capsetfile CVE-2026-4878 For more details about the security issues, including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments,...

CLSA-2026-1778662651 libcap: Fix of CVE-2026-4878

CVE-2026-4878: capsetfile TOCTOU race via path-based xattr operations...

CLSA-2026-1778599722 Fix CVE(s): CVE-2026-4878

SECURITY UPDATE: TOCTOU race condition in capsetfile - debian/patches/CVE-2026-4878.patch: open the target file and operate on /proc/self/fd/N so the inode is locked between the regular-file check and the xattr update - CVE-2026-4878...

CLSA-2026-1778599539 Fix CVE(s): CVE-2026-4878

SECURITY UPDATE: TOCTOU race condition in capsetfile - debian/patches/CVE-2026-4878.patch: open the target file and operate on /proc/self/fd/N so the inode is locked between the regular-file check and the xattr update - CVE-2026-4878...

Unity Linux 20.1050e / 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: libcap (UTSA-2026-016785)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-016785 advisory. A flaw was found in libcap. A local unprivileged user can exploit a Time-of-check-to-time-of-use TOCTOU race condition in the capsetfile function. This allows an...

CLSA-2026-1778081089 libcap: Fix of CVE-2026-4878

CVE-2026-4878: capsetfile TOCTOU race via path-based xattr operations...

Oracle Linux 8 : libcap (ELSA-2026-13285)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2026-13285 advisory. 2.48-6.1 - Fix TOCTOU race condition in capsetfile CVE-2026-4878 Resolves: RHEL-169304 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the...