cve-2022-46285
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-07 00:00
Modified
2025-03-25 14:43
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS score ?
0.08% (0.23763)
Summary
A flaw was found in libXpm. This issue occurs when parsing a file with a comment not closed; the end-of-file condition will not be detected, leading to an infinite loop and resulting in a Denial of Service in the application linked to the library.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/10
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160092Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm/-/commit/a3a7c6dcc3b629d7650148
secalert@redhat.comhttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm/-/merge_requests/9
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00021.html
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2023-January/003312.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/10
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160092Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm/-/commit/a3a7c6dcc3b629d7650148
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm/-/merge_requests/9
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00021.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2023-January/003312.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a libXpm Version: 3.5.15
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