CVE-2023-43789 Libxpm: out of bounds read on xpm with corrupted colormap

What is CVE-2023-43789?

CVE-2023-43789 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 12 Oct 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-43789?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Libxpm Project Libxpm, Redhat Enterprise Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2023-43789?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2023-43789 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-43789 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2023-43789, AZL-31490, BELL-CVE-2023-43789, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-43789, GHSA-738h-f6r7-jx59, JLSEC-2026-287 and 1 more.