CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-38252
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-07-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in w3m, in the Strnew_size function in Str.c. This issue may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service through a crafted HTML file.
Affected configurations
• tats w3m 0.5.3\+git20230121
• fedoraproject extra packages for enterprise linux 8.0
• fedoraproject fedora 38
• redhat enterprise linux 6.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38252 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222775 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/270 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38252 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222775 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/270 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/AULOBQJLXE2KCT5UVQMKGEFL4GFIAOED/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/MKFZQUK7FPWWJQYICDZZ4YWIPUPQ2D3R/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TODROGVCWZ435HQIZE6ARQC5LPQLIA5C/ lists.fedoraproject.org