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CVE-2023-43785 (GCVE-0-2023-43785)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-10 12:26 – Updated: 2025-11-06 22:59
VLAI
Title
Libx11: out-of-bounds memory access in _xkbreadkeysyms()
Summary
A vulnerability was found in libX11 due to a boundary condition within the _XkbReadKeySyms() function. This flaw allows a local user to trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read the contents of memory on the system.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-04-25 15:44 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Affected: 0 , < 1.8.7 (semver)
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Unaffected: 0:1.6.8-8.el8 , < * (rpm)
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 0:1.7.0-9.el9 , < * (rpm)
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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Date Public
2023-10-04 00:00
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