Libx11: stack exhaustion from infinite recursion in putsubimage()
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.5epss 0.5%
exploitation probability
0.5%top 61% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A vulnerability was found in libX11 due to an infinite loop within the PutSubImage() function. This flaw allows a local user to consume all available system resources and cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
libXpmRed 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-2023-43786https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242253https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00005.htmlhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/63IBRFLQVZSMOAZBZOBKFWJP26ILRAGQ/https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231103-0006/http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/24/9