CVE-2023-43789: Fedoraproject Fedora

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

A vulnerability was found in libXpm where a vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition, a local user can trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 38 only
• Libxpm Project Libxpm: before 3.5.17 (fixed in 3.5.17)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2023-10-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.