Bug 2242249 (CVE-2023-43789)

Summary: CVE-2023-43789 libXpm: out of bounds read on XPM with corrupted colormap
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: ndegraef
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Fixed In Version: libXpm 3.5.17 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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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.
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Bug Depends On: 2243048, 2248829    
Bug Blocks: 2240180    

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2023-10-05 07:11:09 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Sandipan Roy 2023-10-10 12:04:05 UTC
Created libXpm tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2243048]

Comment 3 Niels De Graef 2023-10-25 14:05:40 UTC
 Dhananjay,

Any Xpm CVE also needs a ticket filed in the motif component as well (since it has an in-tree copy of Xpm). Would you mind taking care of those?

Comment 4 Dhananjay Arunesh 2023-11-09 08:23:46 UTC
Created motif tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2248829]

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2024-04-30 09:39:38 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2024:2146 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2146

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2024-04-30 09:49:56 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2024:2217 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2217

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2024-05-22 09:24:30 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:2974 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2974

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2024-05-22 09:36:22 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:3022 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3022