Out-of-bounds Read Affecting tats/w3m package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.07% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TATSW3M-5776185
  • published14 Jul 2023
  • disclosed29 Jun 2023
  • creditIskindar

Introduced: 29 Jun 2023

CVE-2023-38252  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read in the Strnew_size() method at the w3m/Str.c file. This issue may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service through a crafted HTML file.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1