{"id":"CVE-2023-43788","title":"Libxpm: out of bounds read in xpmcreatexpmimagefrombuffer()","summary":"A vulnerability was found in libXpm due to a boundary condition within the XpmCreateXpmImageFromBuffer() function. This flaw allows a local attacker to trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read the contents of memory on the system.","severity":"medium","cvss":5.5,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","cvssSource":"cna","cwe":["CWE-125"],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"libXpm","affected":["libXpm < 3.5.17","libXpm (all versions)","motif (all versions)","libXpm (all versions)","motif (all versions)","libXpm","libXpm","motif"],"ssvc":{"exploitation":"none","automatable":"no","technicalImpact":"partial","timestamp":"2025-06-16T17:04:06.279449Z"},"published":"2023-10-10","updated":"2026-11-07","sourceUpdated":"2026-11-07T05:01:33.858Z","source":"CVEORG","sourceUrl":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-43788","references":[{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2146","label":"RHSA-2024:2146"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2217","label":"RHSA-2024:2217"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2974","label":"RHSA-2024:2974"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3022","label":"RHSA-2024:3022"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-43788"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242248","label":"RHBZ#2242248"}],"tags":["cve.org"],"epss":0.0038,"epssPercentile":0.32203,"ingestedAt":"2026-11-07T05:10:28.780Z","slug":"CVE-2023-43788","body":"## Overview\n\nA vulnerability was found in libXpm due to a boundary condition within the XpmCreateXpmImageFromBuffer() function. This flaw allows a local attacker to trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read the contents of memory on the system.\n\n## Affected\n\n- `libXpm < 3.5.17`\n- `libXpm (all versions)`\n- `motif (all versions)`\n- `libXpm (all versions)`\n- `motif (all versions)`\n- `libXpm`\n- `libXpm`\n- `motif`\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":30,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":30.3,"likelihood":0.1,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}