ALAS2-2023-2295

Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2295
Advisory Release Date: 2023-10-12 15:09 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-10-19 23:40 Pacific
Severity: Medium
Issue Overview:

libX11: integer overflow in XCreateImage() leading to a heap overflow. (CVE-2023-43787)

libXpm: out of bounds read in XpmCreateXpmImageFromBuffer()

NOTE: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/1
NOTE: Fixed by: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm/-/commit/2fa554b01ef6079a9b35df9332bdc4f139ed67e0 (CVE-2023-43788)

libXpm: out of bounds read on XPM with corrupted colormap (CVE-2023-43789)


Affected Packages:

libXpm


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.


Issue Correction:
Run yum update libXpm to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    libXpm-3.5.12-9.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    libXpm-devel-3.5.12-9.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    libXpm-debuginfo-3.5.12-9.amzn2.0.2.aarch64

i686:
    libXpm-3.5.12-9.amzn2.0.2.i686
    libXpm-devel-3.5.12-9.amzn2.0.2.i686
    libXpm-debuginfo-3.5.12-9.amzn2.0.2.i686

src:
    libXpm-3.5.12-9.amzn2.0.2.src

x86_64:
    libXpm-3.5.12-9.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    libXpm-devel-3.5.12-9.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    libXpm-debuginfo-3.5.12-9.amzn2.0.2.x86_64

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2023-43787, CVE-2023-43788, CVE-2023-43789

Mitre: CVE-2023-43787, CVE-2023-43788, CVE-2023-43789