CVE-2022-46285 (GCVE-0-2022-46285)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-07 00:00
Modified
2025-03-25 14:43
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Summary
A flaw was found in libXpm. This issue occurs when parsing a file with a comment not closed; the end-of-file condition will not be detected, leading to an infinite loop and resulting in a Denial of Service in the application linked to the library.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a libXpm Version: 3.5.15
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