Riskcovery

CVE-2023-43789

Libxpm: out of bounds read on xpm with corrupted colormap

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Oct 12, 2023
Updated
Nov 6, 2025
Reserved
Sep 22, 2023

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Description

A vulnerability was found in libXpm where a vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition, a local user can trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nredhat

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
libXpm
  • before 3.5.17Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat
  • 0:3.5.12-11.el8 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat
  • 0:2.3.4-20.el8 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat
  • 0:3.5.13-10.el9 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat
  • 0:2.3.4-28.el9 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat

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