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CVE-2023-43789

libXpm: out of bounds read on XPM with corrupted colormap

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · October 4, 2023

Updated · November 21, 2025

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read