[ALSA-2026:67908] Important: libevent security update
Type:
security
Severity:
important
Release date:
2026-09-16
Description:
The libevent packages provide an abstract asynchronous event notification library. Security Fix(es): * libevent: Libevent: Denial of Service via malformed RPC data (CVE-2026-63383) * libevent: Libevent: Off-by-one stack buffer overflow leading to denial of service or data corruption (CVE-2026-63387) * libevent: Libevent: Denial of Service via integer conversion error in `evtag_unmarshal_header` (CVE-2026-63384) * libevent ev[http:](http:) Multiple HTTP Parser Bugs Enable Request Smuggling (CVE-2026-63382) * libevent: Libevent: Arbitrary code execution via heap out-of-bounds write in AF_UNIX handling (CVE-2026-63388) * libevent: Libevent: HTTP header handling bugs create risk of access control bypass. (CVE-2026-63385) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Updated packages listed below:
Architecture Package Checksum
aarch64 libevent-2.1.8-11.el8_10.aarch64.rpm c5583b1b1188d359ed9cec316611bb9ec2c96f4f086ca5230feacb92e34f3cb5
aarch64 libevent-devel-2.1.8-11.el8_10.aarch64.rpm d69825b9a5c606e06af88151bbb00716226f4a2b39c5efaffa65268aace46ccd
i686 libevent-2.1.8-11.el8_10.i686.rpm 14b7d8baf673e9af6d55abbbcf6d02bb94814064c68be6fb39a8747e2c421980
i686 libevent-devel-2.1.8-11.el8_10.i686.rpm 6777164532264b04d35ee5eaf70c276ce705fdd60af64a1ae36901a59bae62b3
noarch libevent-doc-2.1.8-11.el8_10.noarch.rpm cd73d6af1fd91e0aeb51451844360c9cb4eeddaa8efe20baf54951a69aabe156
ppc64le libevent-devel-2.1.8-11.el8_10.ppc64le.rpm 5b9921a9efd4f23cee83971a0cdc9468b70da8650e6baa4a3c42ca3ac77a82bd
ppc64le libevent-2.1.8-11.el8_10.ppc64le.rpm bf790b0e1f79d7430af81922a8bc03eb6546a7f3e3b5e82aed7c69ebeac1b106
s390x libevent-2.1.8-11.el8_10.s390x.rpm 25c6df5f15b8576ac21ac915533043b35176e7bee8c2425cf8e36013b8c2c278
s390x libevent-devel-2.1.8-11.el8_10.s390x.rpm bc4268b15f91cc0d8327e41674c4a3665d26906df2e384643b42e0f7c2da2a97
x86_64 libevent-devel-2.1.8-11.el8_10.x86_64.rpm 058aea5f2e9713a1fa343983dfa55bf29d636acb72cbec93c57e667d22c1c2cb
x86_64 libevent-2.1.8-11.el8_10.x86_64.rpm 84798fda69c9b796d914c145f93f233da339ab7bce3dfd4ee32c867680c0d017
Notes:
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