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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-43789: Out-of-bounds Read

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-43789: Out-of-bounds Read

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/12/2023
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
06/11/2024

Description

A vulnerability was found in libXpm where a vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition, a local user can trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libxpm

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