CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-43786

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2023-10-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-10-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-835

Description

A vulnerability was found in libX11 due to an infinite loop within the PutSubImage() function. This flaw allows a local user to consume all available system resources and cause a denial of service condition.

Affected configurations

• x.org libx11 (< 1.8.7) • redhat enterprise linux 8.0 • redhat enterprise linux 9.0 • fedoraproject fedora 38

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References