fkie_cve-2023-45920
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2024-03-27 05:15
Modified
2025-11-04 19:16
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
cve@mitre.orghttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jan/48Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceforge.net/p/mcj/tickets/155/Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176803/Xfig-3.2.8-Null-Pointer.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jan/48Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceforge.net/p/mcj/tickets/155/Issue Tracking
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
xfig_project xfig 3.2.8


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  "id": "CVE-2023-45920",
  "lastModified": "2025-11-04T19:16:02.020",
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