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CVE-2023-24039

Published: Jan 21, 2023

Modified: Apr 2, 2025

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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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://github.com/hnsecurity/vulns/blob/main/HNS-2022-01-dtprintinfo.txt

https://github.com/0xdea/exploits/blob/master/solaris/raptor_dtprintlibXmas.c

https://security.humanativaspa.it/nothing-new-under-the-sun/

20230123 Re: HNS-2022-01 - HN Security Advisory - Multiple vulnerabilities in Solaris dtprintinfo and libXm/libXpm

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