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,...

RLSA-2026:12423 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,...

OESA-2023-1345 libcap security update

This is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e formerly POSIX 6 draft 15 capabilities. Security Fixes: A vulnerability was found in the pthreadcreate function in libcap. This issue may allow a malicious actor to use cause realpthreadcreate to return an error, which can exhaust the process...

OESA-2023-1343 libcap security update

This is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e formerly POSIX 6 draft 15 capabilities. Security Fixes: A vulnerability was found in libcap. This issue occurs in the libcapstrdup function and can lead to an integer overflow if the input string is close to 4GiB.CVE-2023-2603...

Important: Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: libcap-ng bug fix and enhancement update

Updated libcap-ng packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. The libcap-ng library is designed to make programming with POSIX capabilities easier. It is shipped with utilities to analyze the POSIX capabilities of all running...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2000:012)

POSIX 'Capabilities' have recently been implemented in the Linux kernel. These 'Capabilities' are an additional form of privilege control to enable more specific control over what privileged processes can do. Capabilities are implemented as three fairly large bitfields, which each bit representin...

RedHat Update for libcap RHSA-2011:1694-03

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: libcap-2.22-1.fc15

libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e formerly POSIX 6 draft 15 capabilities...