CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2022-46285
High (7.5) in x.org libxpm. EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 70% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-835
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- x.org:libxpm
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/10
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160092
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm/-/commit/a3a7c6dcc3b629d7650148
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm/-/merge_requests/9