CVE-2023-38253mediumCWE-125

CVE-2023-38253: medium-severity vulnerability in w3m

W3m: out of bounds read in growbuf_to_str() at w3m/indep.c

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 4.7epss 0.4%
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 6
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