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CVE-2022-46285

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Date: February 6, 2023

A flaw was found in libXpm. This issue occurs when parsing a file with a comment not closed; the end-of-file condition will not be detected, leading to an infinite loop and resulting in a Denial of Service in the application linked to the library.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (12)

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46285

Url: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm/-/merge_requests/9

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-46285

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-46285

Url: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2023-January/003312.html

Url: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-46285

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00021.html

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/10

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160092

Url: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm/-/commit/a3a7c6dcc3b629d7650148

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/1

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2022-46285

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

CWE-835

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version libxpm - 3.5.15

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

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CVE-2022-46285

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Date: February 6, 2023

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (12)

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

CVSS v3.1

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