ALPINE-CVE-2023-38253

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Source

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-38253

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2023-38253.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2023-38253

Upstream

CVE-2023-38253

Published

2023-07-14T18:15:11.047Z

Modified

2025-12-03T23:04:00.361399Z

Severity

5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in w3m, in the growbuftoStr function in indep.c. This issue may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service through a crafted HTML file.

References

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-38253

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.23 / w3m

Package

Name: w3m
Purl: pkg:apk/alpine/w3m?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.5.3_git20241203-r0

Affected versions

0.*

0.5.3-r0

0.5.3-r1

0.5.3-r2

0.5.4-r0

0.5.5-r0

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2023-38253.json"