CVE-2023-43789

Publication date 3 October 2023

Last updated 11 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libxpm 25.10 questing
Fixed 1:3.5.12-1.1ubuntu1
25.04 plucky
Fixed 1:3.5.12-1.1ubuntu1
24.10 oracular
Fixed 1:3.5.12-1.1ubuntu1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 1:3.5.12-1.1ubuntu1
23.10 mantic
Fixed 1:3.5.12-1.1ubuntu1
23.04 lunar
Fixed 1:3.5.12-1.1ubuntu0.1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1:3.5.12-1ubuntu0.22.04.2
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1:3.5.12-1ubuntu0.20.04.2
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1:3.5.12-1ubuntu0.18.04.2+esm1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1:3.5.11-1ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm2
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1:3.5.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm2
motif 25.10 questing
Needs evaluation
25.04 plucky
Needs evaluation
24.10 oracular Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation

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Notes

alexmurray

motif contains a vendored copy of libxpm under lib/Xm/ with files prefixed by Xpm eg. the file src/parse.c in libxpm is lib/Xm/Xpmparse.c

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-6408-1
    • libXpm vulnerabilities
    • 3 October 2023
    • USN-6408-2
    • libXpm vulnerabilities
    • 23 October 2023

Other references