CVE-2026-63383
highpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.005 · 42 %ileDEFRRUEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
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.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.6–8.7
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affected products (18)
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advisories (3)
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- WID-SEC-W-2026-3419Red Hat Enterprise Linux (corosync, libevent, libsoup): Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2026-09-16csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Red Hat Enterprise Linux ausnutzen, um beliebigen Code auszuführen, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen, Daten zu manipulieren oder offenzulegen oder Denial-of-Service-Zustände herbeizuführen.
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1336Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBMFrançais2026-10-16vendor · certfrFR
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1378Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBMFrançais2026-10-23vendor · certfrFR
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references (5) nvd
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- https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/91ed8745eebabdd27592a83d350338a8c4626321
- https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/e1f9e21887c6b104e206a718385ba3ffc75180cb
- https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/tag/release-2.1.13-stable
- https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/tag/release-2.2.2-alpha
- https://github.com/libevent/libevent/security/advisories/GHSA-fj29-64w6-73h6
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