MGASA-2024-0105: w3m Mageia

CVSS: UnknownPublished
Published 01-04-2024Last modified 16-04-2026
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Vulnerability summary

MGASA-2024-0105 is a vulnerability in w3m Mageia with no CVSS score yet.

Overall risk
0/100
0100
Minimal · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
Not scored
010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS score
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0%100%
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KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 3 · Downstream 0
CVE-2023-38252CVE-2023-38253CVE-2023-4255

Timeline

  1. 01-04-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 16-04-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Updated w3m packages fix security vulnerabilities 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. (CVE-2023-38252) 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. (CVE-2023-38253) 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. (CVE-2023-4255)

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Public exploits

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Weaknesses

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Affected systems

Mageia1 product
  • w3m< 0.5.3-13.git20230121.1.mga9

1 vendor · 1 product

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