MGASA-2023-0006 - Updated w3m packages fix security vulnerability Publication date: 13 Jan 2023 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0006.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 8 CVE: CVE-2022-38223 There is an out-of-bounds write in checkType located in etc.c in w3m 0.5.3. It can be triggered by sending a crafted HTML file to the w3m binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service or possibly have unspecified other impact. (CVE-2022-38223) References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31365 - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/NRRZMTLG3YT6U3PSGJOAMLDNLRF2EUOP/ - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-38223 SRPMS: - 8/core/w3m-0.5.3-13.git20220429.1.mga8
Mageia 2023-0006: w3m security update
There is an out-of-bounds write in checkType located in etc.c in w3m 0.5.3
Summary
There is an out-of-bounds write in checkType located in etc.c in w3m
0.5.3. It can be triggered by sending a crafted HTML file to the w3m
binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service or possibly have
unspecified other impact. (CVE-2022-38223)
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31365
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/NRRZMTLG3YT6U3PSGJOAMLDNLRF2EUOP/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-38223
Resolution
MGASA-2023-0006 - Updated w3m packages fix security vulnerability
SRPMS
- 8/core/w3m-0.5.3-13.git20220429.1.mga8
Severity
Publication date: 13 Jan 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0006.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-38223
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