CVE-2023-43788

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    CVE-2023-43788

    Published: 10 Oct 2023Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary: Libxpm: out of bounds read in xpmcreatexpmimagefrombuffer()

    Details: A vulnerability was found in libXpm due to a boundary condition within the XpmCreateXpmImageFromBuffer() function. This flaw allows a local attacker to trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read the contents of memory on the system.

    References: https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00005.html, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/63IBRFLQVZSMOAZBZOBKFWJP26ILRAGQ/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/I3KFUQT42R7TB4D7RISNSBQFJGLTQGUL/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TFAJTBNO3PAIA6EGZR4PN62H6RLKNDTE/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/V6FARGWN7VWXXWPXYNEEDJLRR3EWFZ3T/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ZECBCLDYUGLDSVV75ECPIBW7JXOB3747/, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2146, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2217, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2974, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3022, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-43788, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/43xxx/CVE-2023-43788.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-43788, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242248, https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -a154f12b6e56f131bd5880fc96f11615ff940b29

    Affected versions

    libXpm-3.5.16
    libXpm-3.5.15
    libXpm-3.5.14
    libXpm-3.5.13
    libXpm-3.5.12
    libXpm-3.5.11
    libXpm-3.5.10
    libXpm-3.5.9
    libXpm-3.5.8
    libXpm-3.5.7
    libXpm-3.5.6

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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