CVE-2023-2602: Debian Linux

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability was found in the pthread_create() function in libcap. This issue may allow a malicious actor to use cause __real_pthread_create() to return an error, which can exhaust the process memory.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only; version 11.0 only; version 12.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 37 only; version 38 only
• Libcap Project Libcap: version 2.66 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2023-06-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.