CVE-2023-43789

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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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libxpm	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 1:3.5.12-1.1ubuntu1
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 1:3.5.12-1.1ubuntu1
	23.04 lunar	Fixed 1:3.5.12-1.1ubuntu0.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1:3.5.12-1ubuntu0.22.04.2
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1:3.5.12-1ubuntu0.20.04.2
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1:3.5.12-1ubuntu0.18.04.2+esm1 Ubuntu Pro
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1:3.5.11-1ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm2 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1:3.5.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm2 Ubuntu Pro
motif	24.04 LTS noble	Needs evaluation
	23.10 mantic	Ignored
	23.04 lunar	Ignored
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	20.04 LTS focal	Needs evaluation
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
	14.04 LTS trusty	Needs evaluation

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Notes

alexmurray

motif contains a vendored copy of libxpm under lib/Xm/ with files prefixed by Xpm eg. the file src/parse.c in libxpm is lib/Xm/Xpmparse.c

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6408-1
libXpm vulnerabilities
3 October 2023

USN-6408-2
libXpm vulnerabilities
23 October 2023

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-43789