CVE-2023-4255

CVSS V2 None CVSS V3 None

Description

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2023-4255

Assigner
redhat

Vulnerability Status
PUBLISHED

Published Version
2023-12-21T16:08:39.691Z

Last Modified Date
2023-12-21T16:08:39.691Z

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-787	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/787.html

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255207	issue-tracking x_refsource_REDHAT
https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/edc602651c506aeeb60544b55534dd1722a340d3
https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/268
https://github.com/tats/w3m/pull/273
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AULOBQJLXE2KCT5UVQMKGEFL4GFIAOED/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TODROGVCWZ435HQIZE6ARQC5LPQLIA5C/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MKFZQUK7FPWWJQYICDZZ4YWIPUPQ2D3R/

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4255
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-4255

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2024-06-24 19:06:48				Added to TrackCVE