Description
A flaw was found in libXpm. This issue occurs when parsing a file with a comment not closed; the end-of-file condition will not be detected, leading to an infinite loop and resulting in a Denial of Service in the application linked to the library.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a libXpm
3.5.15affected
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160092 ↗
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm/-/merge_requests/9 ↗
- https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2023-January/003312.html ↗
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm/-/commit/a3a7c6dcc3b629d7650148 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00021.html ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/1 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/10 ↗