[ubuntu/noble-security] libevent 2.1.12-stable-9ubuntu2.1 (Accepted)

Shafayat Hossain Majumder shafayat.majumder at canonical.com
Tue Sep 1 14:50:33 UTC 2026


libevent (2.1.12-stable-9ubuntu2.1) noble-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: dangling pointer in buffer reference handling
    - debian/patches/CVE-2026-63381.patch: reset empty output buffer
      pointers and add regression coverage in buffer.c and
      test/regress_buffer.c.
    - CVE-2026-63381
  * SECURITY UPDATE: HTTP request smuggling in request body framing
    - debian/patches/CVE-2026-63382_1.patch: require strict CRLF chunk
      delimiters in http.c.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2026-63382_2.patch: validate transfer encodings
      and add tests in http-internal.h, http.c, and test/regress_http.c.
    - CVE-2026-63382
  * SECURITY UPDATE: out-of-bounds read during RPC tag decoding
    - debian/patches/CVE-2026-63383.patch: bound tag decoding to contiguous
      buffer data in event_tagging.c.
    - CVE-2026-63383
  * SECURITY UPDATE: integer overflow during RPC payload length decoding
    - debian/patches/CVE-2026-63384.patch: reject oversized RPC payload
      lengths in event_tagging.c and document the limit in
      include/event2/tag.h.
    - CVE-2026-63384
  * SECURITY UPDATE: HTTP header injection during folded header handling
    - debian/patches/CVE-2026-63385.patch: reject CR and LF in HTTP header
      values and update tests in http.c and test/regress_http.c.
    - CVE-2026-63385

Date: 2026-08-31 21:13:21.188977+00:00
Changed-By: Shafayat Hossain Majumder <shafayat.majumder at canonical.com>
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libevent/2.1.12-stable-9ubuntu2.1
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