Updated: 2025-12-01 03:25:34.664767
Description:
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.
| Links | NIST | CIRCL | RHEL | Ubuntu |
| Severity | Score | |
|---|---|---|
| CVSS Version 2.x | 0.0 | |
| CVSS Version 3.x | LOW | 3.3 |
| OS name | Project name | Version | Score | Severity | Status | Errata | Last updated | Statement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU | libcap | 2.48 | 3.3 | LOW | Ignored | 2023-12-01 03:18:54 | This issue is a per‑process memory leak in libcap’s pthread_create wrapper that only occurs when... | |
| CentOS 7 ELS | libcap | 2.22 | 3.3 | LOW | Ignored | 2023-12-01 03:18:54 | Ignored due to low severity |