Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-96938.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-96938
Upstream
Published
2026-08-20T18:16:35Z
Modified
2026-08-30T05:26:50Z
Summary
CVE-2026-63383 affecting package libevent 2.1.12-1
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:3 / libevent

Package

Name
libevent
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/libevent

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Last affected
2.1.12-1

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-96938.json"