vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2023-43785: X.Org X11 library: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Oct 10, 2023
Added
Jul 9, 2024
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

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

gentoo-linux-upgrade-x11-libs-libx11
Title
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