CVE-2022-44617

high

Description

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

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2023-January/003312.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00021.html

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm/-/merge_requests/9

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm/-/commit/f80fa6ae47ad4a5beacb28

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160193

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-02-06

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H