CVE-2026-94287 (GCVE-0-2026-94287)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-28 08:57
Modified
2026-09-28 13:31
CWE
  • CWE-1050 - Excessive platform resource consumption within a loop
Summary
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
x.org libXpm Version: 0   < 3.5.19
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