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🛡️ MGASA-2024-0105 — w3m (CVE-2023-38252 +2 more)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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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)

Affected software

MGASA-2024-0105 is recorded against 1 package.

  • w3m (fixed in 0.5.3-13.git20230121.1.mga9)

Timeline and source

Published on 1 April 2024 and last revised on 16 April 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

advisories.mageia.org (Advisory)
bugs.mageia.org (Report)
lists.fedoraproject.org (Web)

Other advisories for this package

w3m has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-04-01
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-04-16
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
w3m — 0.5.3-13.git20230121.1.mga9

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