CVE-2026-63383
8.7
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Summary
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.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| libevent | libevent | >= 2.2.0-alpha, < 2.2.2-alpha | affected |
| libevent | libevent | < 2.1.13 | affected |
Weaknesses
- CWE-125: CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read
ADP Enrichment
CISA ADP Vulnrichment
- SSVC:
- Exploitation: poc
- Automatable: yes
- Technical Impact: partial
Additional References
References
- https://github.com/libevent/libevent/security/advisories/GHSA-fj29-64w6-73h6
- 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
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