PT-2023-26336 · W3M+3 · W3M+3

Iskindar · Published 2015-12-01 · Updated 2025-02-08 · CVE-2023-38252

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions w3m (affected versions not specified)

Description An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the Strnew size function in Str.c, which may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service through a crafted HTML file.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-2043

ALT-PU-2020-3099

CVE-2023-38252

MGASA-2024-0105

OPENSUSE-SU-2023_4439-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13138-1

SUSE-SU-2023:4439-1

SUSE-SU-2023_4439-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Debian

Suse

W3M

References · 30

• 🔥 https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/270 · Exploit
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-38252 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-38252 · Security Note
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/message/TODROGVCWZ435HQIZE6ARQC5LPQLIA5C · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-38252 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-38252 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2024-0105 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:13138-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2023:4439-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-38252 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/message/MKFZQUK7FPWWJQYICDZZ4YWIPUPQ2D3R · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2023-38252 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-38252 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0105.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38252 · Vendor Advisory