🛡️ CVE-2023-38252
🟡 CVSS 4.7 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-125 NVD
4.7
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-125
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-07-14
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-02-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
enterprise-linux
extra-packages-for-enterprise-linux
fedora
w3m

References

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222775
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/270
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222775
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/270

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