Summary
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in w3m ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.
Product
w3m ist ein Text File Viewer und kann auch als Textmodus Web-Browser genutzt werden.
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 5.5
W3m: out-of-bounds write in function checktype() in etc.c (incomplete fix for cve-2022-38223)
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…
Revision history
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#3
Neue Updates von Fedora aufgenommen
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#2
Neue Updates von Ubuntu aufgenommen
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#1
Initiale Fassung
References
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National Vulnerability Database CVE-2023-4255 vom 2024-01-02
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4255
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SUSE Security Update SUSE-SU-2024:0014-1 vom 2024-01-02
https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2024-January/017586.html
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GitHub Security Advisory vom 2024-01-02
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hx3r-ph4g-9px9
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Proof of Concept (PoC)
https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/268
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6580-1 vom 2024-01-15
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6580-1
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Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2024-3FC66F8BF3 vom 2024-03-19
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-3fc66f8bf3
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Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2024-AEB75F8B5B vom 2024-03-19
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-aeb75f8b5b
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Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-EPEL-2024-BF31852FE0 vom 2024-03-19
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2024-bf31852fe0
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Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-EPEL-2024-5253D48B14 vom 2024-03-19
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2024-5253d48b14
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Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-EPEL-2024-0398EBBBFA vom 2024-03-19
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2024-0398ebbbfa
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Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2024-38C2261CA0 vom 2024-03-19
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-38c2261ca0