CVE-2022-44617

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-02-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

A flaw was found in libXpm. When processing a file with width of 0 and a very large height, some parser functions will be called repeatedly and can lead to an infinite loop, resulting in a Denial of Service in the application linked to the library.

Affected products

libXpm: before 3.5.15 — fixed in 3.5.15

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: libXpm 3.5.15. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160193
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm/-/commit/f80fa6ae47ad4a5beacb28
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm/-/merge_requests/9
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00021.html
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2023-January/003312.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160193
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm/-/commit/f80fa6ae47ad4a5beacb28
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm/-/merge_requests/9
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00021.html
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2023-January/003312.html

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