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CVE-2023-24039

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-01-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow in ParseColors in libXm in Common Desktop Environment 1.6 can be exploited by local low-privileged users via the dtprintinfo setuid binary to escalate their privileges to root on Solaris 10 systems. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.

Affected products

• Opengroup Common Desktop Environment: 1.6

References

• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jan/24
• https://github.com/0xdea/exploits/blob/master/solaris/raptor_dtprintlibXmas.c
• https://github.com/hnsecurity/vulns/blob/main/HNS-2022-01-dtprintinfo.txt
• https://security.humanativaspa.it/nothing-new-under-the-sun/
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jan/24
• https://github.com/0xdea/exploits/blob/master/solaris/raptor_dtprintlibXmas.c
• https://github.com/hnsecurity/vulns/blob/main/HNS-2022-01-dtprintinfo.txt
• https://security.humanativaspa.it/nothing-new-under-the-sun/

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