CVE-2022-46285

high

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.

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/a3a7c6dcc3b629d7650148

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160092

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/10

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-02-07

Updated: 2025-03-25

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