Bugzilla – Bug 1202684
VUL-0: CVE-2022-38223: w3m: Out-of-bounds write in checkType located in etc.c in w3m 0.5.3
Last modified: 2023-01-11 14:22:18 UTC
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. References: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2022-38223 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-38223 https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/242 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-38223
There is no upstream fix yet and upstream also could not reproduce the issue yet. However, I am tracking the following as affected, so that we keep up with the updates there: - SUSE:SLE-11-SP1:Update/w3m 0.5.3 - SUSE:SLE-12:Update/w3m 0.5.3 - openSUSE:Factory/w3m 0.5.3
Fix available now: https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/419ca82d57c72242817b55e2eaa4cdbf6916e7fa
SUSE-SU-2023:0066-1: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. Category: security (moderate) Bug References: 1202684 CVE References: CVE-2022-38223 JIRA References: Sources used: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 (src): w3m-0.5.3.git20161120-161.6.1 NOTE: This line indicates an update has been released for the listed product(s). At times this might be only a partial fix. If you have questions please reach out to maintenance coordination.
SUSE-SU-2023:0065-1: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. Category: security (moderate) Bug References: 1202684 CVE References: CVE-2022-38223 JIRA References: Sources used: openSUSE Leap 15.4 (src): w3m-0.5.3+git20180125-150000.3.3.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Realtime Extension 15-SP3 (src): w3m-0.5.3+git20180125-150000.3.3.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP4 (src): w3m-0.5.3+git20180125-150000.3.3.1 NOTE: This line indicates an update has been released for the listed product(s). At times this might be only a partial fix. If you have questions please reach out to maintenance coordination.