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openSUSE 2023:4439-1 Moderate: w3m Denial of Service Patch

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Calendar Grey November 14, 2023
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A new release for w3m tackles several security vulnerabilities, improving overall reliability and fixing denial of service flaws.
This update for w3m fixes the following issues: Update to version 0.5.3+git20230121 CVE-2023-38252: Fixed an out-of-bounds write in function Strnew_size that

Description

This update for w3m fixes the following issues:

* Update to version 0.5.3+git20230121

* CVE-2023-38252: Fixed an out-of-bounds write in function Strnew_size that

allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTML file.

(bsc#1213324)

* CVE-2023-38253: Fixed an out-of-bounds write in function growbuf_to_Str that

allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTML file.

(bsc#1213323)

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service w3m openSUSE

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.5

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2023-4439=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP4-2023-4439=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP5-2023-4439=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2023-4439=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* w3m-0.5.3+git20230121-150000.3.6.1

* w3m-debugsource-0.5.3+git20230121-150000.3.6.1

* w3m-inline-image-debuginfo-0.5.3+git20230121-150000.3.6.1

* w3m-inline-image-0.5.3+git20230121-150000.3.6.1

* w3m-debuginfo-0.5.3+git20230121-150000.3.6.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* w3m-0.5.3+git20230121-150000.3.6.1

* w3m-debugsource-0.5.3+git20230121-150000.3.6.1

* w3m-debuginfo-0.5.3+git20230121-150000.3.6.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* w3m-0.5.3+git20230121-150000.3.6.1

* w3m-debugsource-0.5.3+git20230121-150000.3.6.1

* w3m-debuginfo-0.5.3+git20230121-150000.3.6.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* w3m-0.5.3+git20230121-150000.3.6.1

* w3m-debugsource-0.5.3+git20230121-150000.3.6.1

* w3m-inline-image-debuginfo-0.5.3+git20230121-150000.3.6.1

* w3m-inline-image-0.5.3+git20230121-150000.3.6.1

* w3m-debuginfo-0.5.3+git20230121-150000.3.6.1

References

* bsc#1213323

* bsc#1213324

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38252.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38253.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213323

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213324

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:4439-1
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

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