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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 10:29:29 -0800
From: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@...cle.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Fwd: X.Org Security Advisory: Issues in libX11 prior to 1.8.7 &
 libXpm prior to 3.5.17

On 10/3/23 09:31, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 2) CVE-2023-43786 libX11: stack exhaustion from infinite recursion
>     in PutSubImage()
> 
> Introduced in: X11R2 [released Feb. 1988]
> Fixed in: libX11 1.8.7
> Found by: Yair Mizrahi of the JFrog Vulnerability Research team

> 3) CVE-2023-43787 libX11: integer overflow in XCreateImage() leading to
>     a heap overflow
> 
> Introduced in: X11R2 [released Feb. 1988]
> Fixed in: libX11 1.8.7
> Found by: Yair Mizrahi of the JFrog Vulnerability Research team
> Fixed by: Yair Mizrahi of the JFrog Vulnerability Research team

Yair Mizrahi has now posted more about these two issues at:

https://jfrog.com/blog/xorg-libx11-vulns-cve-2023-43786-cve-2023-43787-part-one/
https://jfrog.com/blog/xorg-libx11-vulns-cve-2023-43786-cve-2023-43787-part-two/

-- 
      -Alan Coopersmith-              alan.coopersmith@...cle.com
        X.Org Security Response Team - xorg-security@...ts.x.org

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