CVE-2023-40359

Summary

CVECVE-2023-40359
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-08-14 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-09-07 06:15:00 UTC
Descriptionxterm before 380 supports ReGIS reporting for character-set names even if they have unexpected characters (i.e., neither alphanumeric nor underscore), aka a pointer/overflow issue. This can only occur for xterm installations that are configured at compile time to use a certain experimental feature.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Invisible-island Xterm All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
XTERM - Change Log MISC invisible-island.net
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296105 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 63.157.1 Missing (CPUOCT2023)
  • 755260 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for xterm (SUSE-SU-2023:4438-1)
  • 907314 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for xterm (27957-1)
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