CVE-2022-38223

unknown

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
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Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.5.3+git20230121-1`
sid	Fixed	`0.5.3+git20230121-1`
forky	Fixed	`0.5.3+git20230121-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.5.3+git20210102-6+deb11u1`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.5.3+git20230121-1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.