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FKIE_CVE-2023-45920

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-03-27 05:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:29

Severity

4.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

Xfig v3.2.8 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference when calling XGetWMHints(). NOTE: this is disputed because it is not expected that an X application should continue to run when there is arbitrary anomalous behavior from the X server or window manager.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jan/48	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://sourceforge.net/p/mcj/tickets/155/	Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176803/Xfig-3.2.8-Null-Pointer.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jan/48	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://sourceforge.net/p/mcj/tickets/155/	Issue Tracking

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	xfig_project	xfig	3.2.8

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CVE-2023-45920 (GCVE-0-2023-45920)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-27 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 18:17 Disputed

Summary

Severity

4.2 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-08-01 18:05 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://sourceforge.net/p/mcj/tickets/155/
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jan/48	mailing-list
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176803/Xfig-…

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