CVE-2023-43788Medium· 5.5▾ SunlitA 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.
▾ Sunlit zone — Low / medium · no exploitation signal
impact 30.3 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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Last analysed / modified upstream
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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.
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