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CVE-2023-43789
Libxpm: out of bounds read on xpm with corrupted colormap
Medium5.5EPSS 0.36%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.36% · top 70% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
libXpm
- affected < 3.5.17
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- unaffected 0:3.5.12-11.el8 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- unaffected 0:2.3.4-20.el8 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- unaffected 0:3.5.13-10.el9 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- unaffected 0:2.3.4-28.el9 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
All versions: unknown
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
All versions: unknown
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
All versions: unknown
References (11)
- RHSA-2024:2146 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2024:2217 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2024:2974 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2024:3022 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-43789 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHBZ#2242249 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/63IBRFLQVZSMOAZBZOBKFWJP26ILRAGQ/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/I3KFUQT42R7TB4D7RISNSBQFJGLTQGUL/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TFAJTBNO3PAIA6EGZR4PN62H6RLKNDTE/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ZECBCLDYUGLDSVV75ECPIBW7JXOB3747/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00005.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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