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Debian 10 Buster DLA-3603-1 Critical: Libxpm Denial of Service Issues

debian lts
Calendar Grey October 5, 2023
Dist Debian Esm H88
Numerous vulnerabilities resolved in libXpm, bolstering overall security and reliability for Debian users.
Several vulnerabilities were found in libXpm, the X Pixmap (XPM) image library

Summary

CVE-2023-43786

Yair Mizrahi discovered an infinite recursion issue when parsing
crafted XPM files, which would result in denial of service.

CVE-2023-43787

Yair Mizrahi discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in libX11
when parsing crafted XPM files, which could result in denial of
service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2023-43788

Alan Coopersmith found an out of bounds read in
XpmCreateXpmImageFromBuffer, which could result in denial of
service when parsing crafted XPM files.

CVE-2023-43789

Alan Coopersmith discovered an out of bounds read issue when
parsing corrupted colormaps, which could lead to denial of
service when parsing crafted XPM files.

For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version
1:3.5.12-1+deb10u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxpm packages.

For the detailed security status of libxpm please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/libxpm

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Package: libxpm
Version: 1:3.5.12-1+deb10u2
CVE ID: CVE-2023-43786 CVE-2023-43787 CVE-2023-43788 CVE-2023-43789

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