Advisories ยป MGASA-2024-0105

Updated w3m packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 01 Apr 2024
Modification date: 01 Apr 2024
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 9
CVE: CVE-2023-38252 , CVE-2023-38253 , CVE-2023-4255

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. (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)

References

SRPMS

9/core