CVE-2023-43788: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability was found in libXpm due to a boundary condition within the XpmCreateXpmImageFromBuffer() function. This flaw allows a local attacker to trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read the contents of memory on the system.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 37 only; version 38 only; version 39 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• X.org Libxpm: before 3.5.17 (fixed in 3.5.17)

Published 2023-10-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.