Bug 1213323 (CVE-2023-38253) - VUL-0: CVE-2023-38253: w3m: out-of-bounds read in growbuf_to_Str() at w3m/indep.c
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2023-38253: w3m: out-of-bounds read in growbuf_to_Str() at w3m/ind...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2023-38253
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P3 - Medium : Normal
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Assignee: Thomas Blume
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/372427/
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Reported: 2023-07-14 09:43 UTC by Alexander Bergmann
Modified: 2023-11-14 16:30 UTC (History)
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Description Alexander Bergmann 2023-07-14 09:43:48 UTC 
CVE-2023-38253

w3m 0.5.3+git20230129 has an out-of-bounds write in function
growbuf_to_Str  in indep.c. This allows attackers to cause a denial of
service via a crafted HTML file.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/271

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2023-38253
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222779
Comment 1 Alexander Bergmann 2023-07-14 09:46:46 UTC 
Affected version :

    0.5.3+git20230129
    0.5.3+git20230121-1
    0.5.3+git20230121-2

Only affecting:

openSUSE:Factory w3m-v0.5.3+git20230121
Comment 2 Thomas Blume 2023-07-14 13:26:38 UTC 
awaiting upstream patch
Comment 3 Thomas Blume 2023-10-11 15:49:31 UTC 
(In reply to Thomas Blume from comment #2)
> awaiting upstream patch

Patch was submitted via:

https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1100670

closing
Comment 5 Maintenance Automation 2023-11-14 16:30:02 UTC 
SUSE-SU-2023:4439-1: An update that solves two vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 1213323, 1213324
CVE References: CVE-2023-38252, CVE-2023-38253
Sources used:
openSUSE Leap 15.5 (src): w3m-0.5.3+git20230121-150000.3.6.1
Basesystem Module 15-SP4 (src): w3m-0.5.3+git20230121-150000.3.6.1
Basesystem Module 15-SP5 (src): w3m-0.5.3+git20230121-150000.3.6.1
openSUSE Leap 15.4 (src): w3m-0.5.3+git20230121-150000.3.6.1

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