CVE-2022-46285

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

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm/-/commit/a3a7c6dcc3b629d7650148

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

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

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