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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-43785: Out-of-bounds Read

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-43785: Out-of-bounds Read

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/10/2023
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/14/2024

Description

A vulnerability was found in libX11 due to a boundary condition within the _XkbReadKeySyms() function. This flaw allows a local user to trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read the contents of memory on the system.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libx11

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