CVE-2026-63381 (GCVE-0-2026-63381)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-20 17:50
Modified
2026-08-21 21:46
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-908 - Use of Uninitialized Resource
Summary
Libevent is an event notification library. Prior to 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha, libevent has a use-after-free in buffer.c when evbuffer_add_buffer_reference processes an output buffer whose out_total_len is zero. evbuffer_free_all_chains frees the initial empty chain without resetting outbuf->first, outbuf->last, or outbuf->last_with_datap, and APPEND_CHAIN_MULTICAST subsequently dereferences the dangling chain pointer. A caller that can drive this buffer state can cause memory corruption or a process crash. This issue is fixed in versions 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha.
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Impacted products
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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