CVE-2023-38253

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-38253

Import Source

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

JSON Data

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

Downstream

Related

Published

2023-07-14T17:07:01Z

Modified

2026-09-17T11:45:10Z

Severity

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

Summary

W3m: out of bounds read in growbuf_to_str() at w3m/indep.c

Details

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

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner":  "redhat",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-125"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/38xxx/CVE-2023-38253.json"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/tats/w3m

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/tats/w3m

Events

Introduced

19005f300b08dd73185ea921585bd17118d8549f

Last Affected

19005f300b08dd73185ea921585bd17118d8549f

Database specific

Show details

{
    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:tats:w3m:0.5.3\\+git20230121:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "0.5.3+git20230121"
        },
        {
            "last_affected":  "0.5.3+git20230121"
        }
    ],
    "source":  "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

0.*

0.5.3+git20230121

upstream/0.*

upstream/0.5.3+git20230121

Database specific

source

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