Description
Multiple vulnerabilities in libXpm for 6.8.1 and earlier, as used in XFree86 and other packages, include (1) multiple integer overflows, (2) out-of-bounds memory accesses, (3) directory traversal, (4) shell metacharacter, (5) endless loops, and (6) memory leaks, which could allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service (application crash), or execute arbitrary code via a certain XPM image file. NOTE: it is highly likely that this candidate will be SPLIT into other candidates in the future, per CVE's content decisions.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- complete
- Integrity
- complete
- Availability
- complete
- Weaknesses
- NVD-CWE-Other
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- LESSTIF
- Published
- 1/10/2005
- Last Modified
- 4/3/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
lesstif : lesstiflesstif : lesstiflesstif : lesstiflesstif : lesstiflesstif : lesstiflesstif : lesstiflesstif : lesstiflesstif : lesstiflesstif : lesstifx.org : x11r6x.org : x11r6x.org : x11r6xfree86_project : x11r6xfree86_project : x11r6xfree86_project : x11r6xfree86_project : x11r6xfree86_project : x11r6xfree86_project : x11r6xfree86_project : x11r6xfree86_project : x11r6xfree86_project : x11r6xfree86_project : x11r6xfree86_project : x11r6xfree86_project : x11r6xfree86_project : x11r6xfree86_project : x11r6xfree86_project : x11r6xfree86_project : x11r6xfree86_project : x11r6gentoo : linuxredhat : fedora_coreredhat : fedora_coresuse : suse_linuxsuse : suse_linuxsuse : suse_linuxsuse : suse_linuxsuse : suse_linuxsuse : suse_linuxsuse : suse_linuxsuse : suse_linux
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