MEDIUM 5.7 NVD
CVE-2026-63380
Libevent is an event notification library. Prior to 2.2.2-alpha, libevent can dereference invalid list pointers in ws.c when evws_new_session enters its error p
Libevent is an event notification library. Prior to 2.2.2-alpha, libevent can dereference invalid list pointers in ws.c when evws_new_session enters its error path after evhttp_start_ws_ succeeds but bufferevent_enable_locking_ fails. evws_connection_free sees a non-null http_server and unconditionally calls TAILQ_REMOVE even though the session was never inserted into http_server->ws_sessions. A local caller able to induce this allocation or locking failure can crash the process. This issue is fixed in version 2.2.2-alpha.
References
- https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/825c18bd99f556b59d61200523237f264d5cc734
- https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/tag/release-2.2.2-alpha
- https://github.com/libevent/libevent/security/advisories/GHSA-3rpf-frgx-xq34
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.7 was published on 2026-08-20 via NVD.
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