RHEL 10 : libevent (RHSA-2026:67909)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 346438

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for libevent.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:67909 advisory.

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: Memory corruption due to use-after-free (CVE-2026-63381)

* libevent: Libevent: Denial of Service via integer conversion error in `evtag_unmarshal_header` (CVE-2026-63384)

* libevent evhttp: 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)

* libevent: Libevent: HTTP header smuggling allows authorization bypass or cache poisoning (CVE-2026-63379)

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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL libevent package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:67909.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 346438

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-67909.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/16/2026

Updated: 9/16/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.17

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-63387

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.4

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-63388

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.2

Threat Score: 7.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-63385

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libevent-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libevent-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libevent

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/16/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/20/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-63379, CVE-2026-63381, CVE-2026-63382, CVE-2026-63383, CVE-2026-63384, CVE-2026-63385, CVE-2026-63387, CVE-2026-63388

CWE: 125, 190, 444, 787, 825

RHSA: 2026:67909

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