Libx11: out-of-bounds memory access in _xkbreadkeysyms()
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.5epss 0.6%
exploitation probability
0.6%top 51% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A vulnerability was found in libX11 due to a boundary condition within the _XkbReadKeySyms() function. This flaw allows a local user to trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read the contents of memory on the system.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
libX11Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2145https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2973https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-43785https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242252https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00004.htmlhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231103-0006/