CVE-2023-43788

Summary

CVECVE-2023-43788
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-10-10 13:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-12-06 03:15:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability was found in libXpm due to a boundary condition within the XpmCreateXpmImageFromBuffer() function. This flaw allows a local to trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read the contents of memory on the system.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 38 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 9.0 All All All
Application X.org Libxpm All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
2242248 – (CVE-2023-43788) CVE-2023-43788 libXpm: out of bounds read in XpmCreateXpmImageFromBuffer() MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: libXpm-3.5.17-1.fc39 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
cve-details MISC access.redhat.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: libXpm-3.5.17-1.fc38 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/messag... lists.fedoraproject.org
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/messag... lists.fedoraproject.org
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/messag... lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 199797 Ubuntu Security Notification for libXpm Vulnerabilities (USN-6408-1)
  • 199853 Ubuntu Security Notification for libXpm Vulnerabilities (USN-6408-2)
  • 284631 Fedora Security Update for libXpm (FEDORA-2023-591b7f5047)
  • 284793 Fedora Security Update for motif (FEDORA-2023-25329c196b)
  • 284796 Fedora Security Update for motif (FEDORA-2023-ba2e60e743)
  • 285125 Fedora Security Update for motif (FEDORA-2023-e1c7fae02e)
  • 285221 Fedora Security Update for libXpm (FEDORA-2023-c4cf6646b9)
  • 296108 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 66.164.1 Missing (CPUJAN2024)
  • 356444 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for libXpm : ALAS2-2023-2295
  • 356515 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for libXpm : ALAS2023-2023-381
  • 356785 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for libXpm : ALAS-2023-1894
  • 356996 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for libXpm : AL2012-2023-480
  • 505892 Alpine Linux Security Update for libxpm
  • 6000113 Debian Security Update for libxpm (DLA 3603-1)
  • 6000189 Debian Security Update for libxpm (DSA 5516-1)
  • 673475 EulerOS Security Update for libxpm (EulerOS-SA-2023-3312)
  • 673610 EulerOS Security Update for libxpm (EulerOS-SA-2024-1091)
  • 673631 EulerOS Security Update for libxpm (EulerOS-SA-2024-1282)
  • 673729 EulerOS Security Update for libxpm (EulerOS-SA-2023-3344)
  • 673776 EulerOS Security Update for libxpm (EulerOS-SA-2024-1067)
  • 673837 EulerOS Security Update for libxpm (EulerOS-SA-2023-3279)
  • 673922 EulerOS Security Update for libxpm (EulerOS-SA-2024-1151)
  • 674060 EulerOS Security Update for libxpm (EulerOS-SA-2023-3251)
  • 691326 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for x11/libxpm Multiple Vulnerabilities (199cdb4d-690d-11ee-9ed0-001fc69cd6dc)
  • 755027 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for libXpm (SUSE-SU-2023:3965-1)
  • 755029 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for libXpm (SUSE-SU-2023:3962-1)
  • 907574 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for libXpm (31489-1)
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