cve-2022-4883
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-07 00:00
Modified
2025-03-20 19:45
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A flaw was found in libXpm. When processing files with .Z or .gz extensions, the library calls external programs to compress and uncompress files, relying on the PATH environment variable to find these programs, which could allow a malicious user to execute other programs by manipulating the PATH environment variable.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160213Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm/-/commit/515294bb8023a45ff91669
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-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160213Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm/-/commit/515294bb8023a45ff91669
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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