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.
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Libevent: Null Pointer Dereference in `evws_new_session` | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-416 CWE-476 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-20T17:52:29.458Z
Reserved: 2026-07-16T17:39:30.171Z
Link: CVE-2026-63380
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-20T18:16:35.357
Modified: 2026-08-20T18:16:35.357
Link: CVE-2026-63380
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-08-21T13:01:09Z