CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-38223
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
There is an out-of-bounds write in checkType located in etc.c in w3m 0.5.3. It can be triggered by sending a crafted HTML file to the w3m binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service or possibly have unspecified other impact.
Affected configurations
• tats w3m 0.5.3
• fedoraproject fedora 36
• fedoraproject fedora 37
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/242 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00030.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AULOBQJLXE2KCT5UVQMKGEFL4GFIAOED/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MKESIFZMWIFMI6DRGMUYOTVKBOSEKDXZ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MKFZQUK7FPWWJQYICDZZ4YWIPUPQ2D3R/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NRRZMTLG3YT6U3PSGJOAMLDNLRF2EUOP/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TODROGVCWZ435HQIZE6ARQC5LPQLIA5C/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/242 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00030.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AULOBQJLXE2KCT5UVQMKGEFL4GFIAOED/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MKESIFZMWIFMI6DRGMUYOTVKBOSEKDXZ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MKFZQUK7FPWWJQYICDZZ4YWIPUPQ2D3R/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NRRZMTLG3YT6U3PSGJOAMLDNLRF2EUOP/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TODROGVCWZ435HQIZE6ARQC5LPQLIA5C/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/AULOBQJLXE2KCT5UVQMKGEFL4GFIAOED/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TODROGVCWZ435HQIZE6ARQC5LPQLIA5C/ lists.fedoraproject.org