RHSA-2023:0380 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for libXpm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

X.Org X11 libXpm runtime library.

Security Fix(es):

• libXpm: compression commands depend on $PATH (CVE-2022-4883)
• libXpm: Runaway loop on width of 0 and enormous height (CVE-2022-44617)
• libXpm: Infinite loop on unclosed comments (CVE-2022-46285)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2160092 - CVE-2022-46285 libXpm: Infinite loop on unclosed comments
• BZ - 2160193 - CVE-2022-44617 libXpm: Runaway loop on width of 0 and enormous height
• BZ - 2160213 - CVE-2022-4883 libXpm: compression commands depend on $PATH

CVEs

• CVE-2022-4883
• CVE-2022-44617
• CVE-2022-46285

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important