REDHAT-BUG-2520654: High severity libevent libevent vulnerability
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 eventtagging.c when decodetaginternal requests at most five bytes from evbufferpullup 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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Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
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libeventto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 2.1.13 - Upgrade
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libeventto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 2.2.2-alpha