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CVE-2023-43786

Libx11: stack exhaustion from infinite recursion in putsubimage()

Published: 10/10/2023 Last updated: 11/6/2025 Reserved: 9/22/2023

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.

CNA assigner: redhat (53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
3.1 5.5 Medium CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Opam packages affected (2)

conf-libX11 raylib

Products affected (10)

Product Vendor Version
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat 15.2(2)SY1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat 3.16.10S
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat WSA8835
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat < 10.0.17763.6293
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat WSA8840
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat WSA8832
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat 3.16.9S
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat n/a
n/a
WSA8830

References (24)