libcap2 - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: libcap2 (main)
version: 1:2.73-4
maintainer: Christian Kastner (DMD)
std-ver: 4.7.0
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 1:2.25-2
oldstable: 1:2.44-1
stable: 1:2.66-4
testing: 1:2.66-5
unstable: 1:2.73-4

versioned links

1:2.25-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1:2.44-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1:2.66-4: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1:2.66-5: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1:2.73-4: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

libcap-dev (9 bugs: 0, 2, 7, 0)
libcap2 (3 bugs: 1, 1, 1, 0)
libcap2-bin (7 bugs: 0, 2, 5, 0)
libcap2-udeb
libpam-cap (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)

action needed

1 security issue in trixie high

There is 1 open security issue in trixie.

1 important issue:

CVE-2025-1390: The PAM module pam_cap.so of libcap configuration supports group names starting with “@”, during actual parsing, configurations not starting with “@” are incorrectly recognized as group names. This may result in nonintended users being granted an inherited capability set, potentially leading to security risks. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to achieve local privilege escalation on systems where /etc/security/capability.conf is used to configure user inherited privileges by constructing specific usernames.

Created: 2025-02-18 Last update: 2025-02-21 16:01

3 security issues in bullseye high

There are 3 open security issues in bullseye.

1 important issue:

CVE-2025-1390: The PAM module pam_cap.so of libcap configuration supports group names starting with “@”, during actual parsing, configurations not starting with “@” are incorrectly recognized as group names. This may result in nonintended users being granted an inherited capability set, potentially leading to security risks. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to achieve local privilege escalation on systems where /etc/security/capability.conf is used to configure user inherited privileges by constructing specific usernames.

2 issues postponed or untriaged:

CVE-2023-2602: (needs triaging) 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.
CVE-2023-2603: (needs triaging) A vulnerability was found in libcap. This issue occurs in the _libcap_strdup() function and can lead to an integer overflow if the input string is close to 4GiB.

Created: 2025-02-18 Last update: 2025-02-21 16:01

10 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 10 bugs, consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2025-01-06 Last update: 2025-02-22 08:00

2 new commits since last upload, is it time to release? normal

vcswatch reports that this package seems to have new commits in its VCS but has not yet updated debian/changelog. You should consider updating the Debian changelog and uploading this new version into the archive.

Here are the relevant commit logs:

commit c39e397b088734781ac50e6241454a4ade0d7f10
Merge: 132d584 dcbe118
Author: Christian Kastner <ckk@kvr.at>
Date:   Wed Feb 19 22:34:22 2025 +0000

    Merge branch 'salsa-ci-breaks-job' into 'debian/master'
    
    Salsa CI: Test for missing Breaks and Replaces
    
    See merge request debian/libcap2!2

commit dcbe1186058fd27b3e5eafaae907a48c00d09074
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Feb 17 12:38:45 2025 -0800

    Salsa CI: Test for missing Breaks and Replaces
    
    This should help catch more upgrade/install scenarios, such as Bug#1096207.

Created: 2025-02-17 Last update: 2025-02-20 03:31

1 low-priority security issue in bookworm low

There is 1 open security issue in bookworm.

1 issue left for the package maintainer to handle:

CVE-2025-1390: (needs triaging) The PAM module pam_cap.so of libcap configuration supports group names starting with “@”, during actual parsing, configurations not starting with “@” are incorrectly recognized as group names. This may result in nonintended users being granted an inherited capability set, potentially leading to security risks. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to achieve local privilege escalation on systems where /etc/security/capability.conf is used to configure user inherited privileges by constructing specific usernames.

You can find information about how to handle this issue in the security team's documentation.

Created: 2025-02-18 Last update: 2025-02-21 16:01

debian/patches: 4 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 5 debian patches available in version 1:2.73-4 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

4 patches where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the metadata to document its real status.

Created: 2023-02-26 Last update: 2025-02-20 07:03

Build log checks report 1 warning low

Build log checks report 1 warning

Created: 2024-10-29 Last update: 2024-10-29 08:30

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.1 instead of 4.7.0).

Created: 2025-02-21 Last update: 2025-02-21 04:28

testing migrations

excuses:
- Migration status for libcap2 (1:2.66-5 to 1:2.73-4): BLOCKED: Maybe temporary, maybe blocked but Britney is missing information (check below)
- Issues preventing migration:
- ∙ ∙ missing build on mips64el
- Additional info:
- ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/libc/libcap2.html
- ∙ ∙ autopkgtest for glibc/2.40-6: arm64: Pass, armel: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ autopkgtest for libcap2/1:2.73-4: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armel: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ autopkgtest for libguestfs/1:1.52.2-7: arm64: Pass, armel: Failed (not a regression), armhf: Pass, i386: No tests, superficial or marked flaky, ppc64el: Pass, s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Reproducible on amd64 - info ♻
- ∙ ∙ Reproducible on arm64 - info ♻
- ∙ ∙ Waiting for reproducibility test results on armhf - info ♻
- ∙ ∙ Reproducible on i386 - info ♻
- ∙ ∙ Required age reduced by 3 days because of autopkgtest
- ∙ ∙ 2 days old (needed 2 days)
- Not considered

news

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[2025-02-19] Accepted libcap2 1:2.73-4 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2025-02-17] Accepted libcap2 1:2.73-3 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2025-02-17] Accepted libcap2 1:2.73-2 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2025-02-17] Accepted libcap2 1:2.73-1 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2024-02-11] libcap2 1:2.66-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-02-06] Accepted libcap2 1:2.66-5 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2023-05-25] libcap2 1:2.66-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-05-15] Accepted libcap2 1:2.66-4 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2022-12-25] libcap2 1:2.66-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-12-21] Accepted libcap2 1:2.66-3 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2022-12-14] Accepted libcap2 1:2.66-2 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2022-12-12] Accepted libcap2 1:2.66-1 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2022-12-10] Accepted libcap2 1:2.63-1 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2022-06-15] Accepted libcap2 1:2.63-1~exp1 (source) into experimental (Christian Kastner)
[2020-10-18] libcap2 1:2.44-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-10-14] Accepted libcap2 1:2.44-1 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2020-08-27] libcap2 1:2.43-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-08-24] Accepted libcap2 1:2.43-1 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2020-08-10] libcap2 1:2.42-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-08-06] Accepted libcap2 1:2.42-2 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2020-06-23] libcap2 1:2.36-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-06-20] Accepted libcap2 1:2.36-1 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2020-05-18] libcap2 1:2.34-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-05-16] Accepted libcap2 1:2.34-2 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2020-05-16] libcap2 1:2.34-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-05-13] Accepted libcap2 1:2.34-1 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2020-04-02] libcap2 1:2.33-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-03-27] Accepted libcap2 1:2.33-1 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2020-02-21] libcap2 1:2.32-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-02-17] Accepted libcap2 1:2.32-1 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 20
RC: 1
I&N: 6
M&W: 13
F&P: 0
patch: 10

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version: 1:2.66-5ubuntu3
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patches for 1:2.66-5ubuntu3