Advisories » MGASA-2023-0006

Updated w3m packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 13 Jan 2023
Modification date: 13 Jan 2023
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2022-38223

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. (CVE-2022-38223)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31365
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/NRRZMTLG3YT6U3PSGJOAMLDNLRF2EUOP/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-38223

SRPMS

8/core

• w3m-0.5.3-13.git20220429.1.mga8