FKIE_CVE-2022-44617

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-02-06 23:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:08
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A flaw was found in libXpm. When processing a file with width of 0 and a very large height, some parser functions will be called repeatedly and can lead to an infinite loop, resulting in a Denial of Service in the application linked to the library.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160193Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm/-/commit/f80fa6ae47ad4a5beacb28
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=2160193Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm/-/commit/f80fa6ae47ad4a5beacb28
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
x.org libxpm *
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