🛡️ CVE-2023-43788 — enterprise-linux

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-125 NVD
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Description

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

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-43788 is classified as CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read. The code reads past the limits of a buffer, exposing adjacent memory contents or crashing the process.

Affected software

CVE-2023-43788 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • enterprise-linux
  • fedora
  • libxpm (fixed in 3.5.17)

Timeline and source

Published on 10 October 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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CVE-2023-43788 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-125
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-10-10
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
enterprise-linux
fedora
libxpm 3.5.17

References

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242248
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242248

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