Microsoft security update for CVE-2023-43786 — cbl2 libX11 1.8.7-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products1
- cbl2 libX11 1.8.7-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update
1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 1.8.7-1 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2023-43786
- EchelonGraph score
- 5.5 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
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.
Published by Red Hat, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2023-43786, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).