CVE-2023-43787
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-10 12:26
Modified
2024-12-03 14:50
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A vulnerability was found in libX11 due to an integer overflow within the XCreateImage() function. This flaw allows a local user to trigger an integer overflow and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2145
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2973
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-43787Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242254Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/24/9
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2145
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2973
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-43787Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242254Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://jfrog.com/blog/xorg-libx11-vulns-cve-2023-43786-cve-2023-43787-part-two/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231103-0006/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Unaffected: 0:1.6.8-8.el8   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 0:1.7.0-9.el9   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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