CVE-2022-4883
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-07 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 01:55
Severity
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
SourceURLTags
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
Impacted products
VendorProduct
n/alibXpm
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