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.

Database specific

{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/38xxx/CVE-2022-38223.json",
    "cna_assigner": "mitre"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/tats/w3m

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/tats/w3m

Events

Introduced

5397d09e585a1938fb64bc9c5cd5daed1959eb90

Last affected

5397d09e585a1938fb64bc9c5cd5daed1959eb90

Database specific

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

Affected versions

0.*

0.5.3

upstream/0.*

upstream/0.5.3

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-38223.json"