Name libcap
Version 2.77
Summary Library for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Description A library providing the API to access POSIX capabilities. These allow giving various kinds of specific privileges to individual users, without giving them full root permissions.
Section base
License (BSD-3-Clause | GPL-2.0-only) & (BSD-3-Clause | LGPL-2.0-or-later)
Homepage http://sites.google.com/site/fullycapable/
Recipe file recipes-support/libcap/libcap_2.77.bb
Layer openembedded-core (rel-v2026.2 branch)
Inherits
  • gcc
  • gcc-native
  • lib_package
Dependencies
  • gcc-cross-i686
  • gperf-native
  • hostperl-runtime-native
  • virtual/compilerlibs
  • virtual/libc
  • libpam
PACKAGECONFIG options
  • pam
  • vardepvalue

Sources

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/libcap2/libcap-2.77.tar.xz

Patches

Patch Status
files/CVE-2026-4878.patch Backport [https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libcap/libcap.git/commit/?id=286ace1259992bd0c5d9016715833f2e148ac596]

Other branches

This recipe in other branches of openembedded-core:

Branch Recipe
rel-v2026.1 (AMD EDF 26.06 Release) libcap 2.69
rel-v2026.2 (AMD EDF 26.11 Release) libcap 2.77 (this recipe)