CVE-2026-94287

Publication date 28 September 2026

Last updated 1 October 2026

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

A denial of service via unsigned underflow in libXpm's write path in libXpm before 3.5.19 could be used by local attackers to cause unbounded CPU usage and memory exhaustion.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libxpm 26.04 LTS resolute
Fixed 1:3.5.17-1ubuntu0.26.04.2
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 1:3.5.17-1ubuntu0.24.04.2
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1:3.5.12-1ubuntu0.22.04.4
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation
motif 26.04 LTS resolute
Needs evaluation
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation

Notes

alexmurray

motif contains a vendored copy of libxpm under lib/Xm/ with files prefixed by Xpm eg. the file src/parse.c in libxpm is lib/Xm/Xpmparse.c

Patch details

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Package Patch details
libxpm

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.5 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

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