W3m: out of bounds read in growbuf_to_str() at w3m/indep.c
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 4.7epss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 70% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in w3m, in the growbuf_to_Str function in indep.c. This issue may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service through a crafted HTML file.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Fedora · Extra Packages for Enterprise LinuxFedora · Fedoran/a · w3mRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38253https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222779https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/271https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AULOBQJLXE2KCT5UVQMKGEFL4GFIAOED/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MKFZQUK7FPWWJQYICDZZ4YWIPUPQ2D3R/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TODROGVCWZ435HQIZE6ARQC5LPQLIA5C/