CVE-2022-38223

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-38223
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-38223.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-38223
Downstream
Related
Published
2022-08-15T11:21:43.557Z
Modified
2026-03-14T14:55:13.029081Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/tats/w3m

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/tats/w3m
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
5397d09e585a1938fb64bc9c5cd5daed1959eb90
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.5.3"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

upstream/0.*
upstream/0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23
upstream/0.3
upstream/0.5.1
upstream/0.5.2
upstream/0.5.3

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "36"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "37"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-38223.json"