Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-2146-03 - An update for libXpm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Issues addressed include an out of bounds read vulnerability.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: libXpm security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:2146-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2146
Issue date: 2024-04-30
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2023-43788
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Summary:
An update for libXpm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description:
X.Org X11 libXpm runtime library.
Security Fix(es):
* libXpm: out of bounds read in XpmCreateXpmImageFromBuffer() (CVE-2023-43788)
* libXpm: out of bounds read on XPM with corrupted colormap (CVE-2023-43789)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2023-43788
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.4_release_notes/index
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242248
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242249