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FreeBSD: VID-199CDB4D-690D-11EE-9ED0-001FC69CD6DC (CVE-2023-43788): x11/libXpm multiple vulnerabilities

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FreeBSD: VID-199CDB4D-690D-11EE-9ED0-001FC69CD6DC (CVE-2023-43788): x11/libXpm multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/22/2023
Created
10/13/2023
Added
10/12/2023
Modified
10/19/2023

Description

A vulnerability was found in libXpm due to a boundary condition within the XpmCreateXpmImageFromBuffer() function. This flaw allows a local to trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read the contents of memory on the system.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-libxpm

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