Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 21, 2023· Updated Feb 13, 2025
W3m: out-of-bounds write in function checktype() in etc.c (incomplete fix for cve-2022-38223)
CVE-2023-4255
Description
An out-of-bounds write issue has been discovered in the backspace handling of the checkType() function in etc.c within the W3M application. This vulnerability is triggered by supplying a specially crafted HTML file to the w3m binary. Exploitation of this flaw could lead to application crashes, resulting in a denial of service condition.
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Affected products
5- osv-coords2 versionspkg:rpm/suse/w3m&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/w3m&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5
< 0.5.3.git20161120-161.9.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.3.git20161120-161.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.3.git20161120-161.9.1
- Fedora/Extra Packages for Enterprise Linuxv5
- Fedora/Fedorav5
Patches
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References
7- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgimitreissue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
- github.com/tats/w3m/commit/edc602651c506aeeb60544b55534dd1722a340d3mitre
- github.com/tats/w3m/issues/268mitre
- github.com/tats/w3m/pull/273mitre
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AULOBQJLXE2KCT5UVQMKGEFL4GFIAOED/mitre
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MKFZQUK7FPWWJQYICDZZ4YWIPUPQ2D3R/mitre
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TODROGVCWZ435HQIZE6ARQC5LPQLIA5C/mitre
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