An out-of-bounds write issue has been discovered in the backspace handling of the checkType() function in etc.c within the W3M application. This vulnerability is triggered by supplying a specially crafted HTML file to the w3m binary. Exploitation of this flaw could lead to application crashes, resulting in a denial of service condition.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2023-12-21T16:08:39.691Z
Updated: 2024-08-02T07:24:03.587Z
Reserved: 2023-08-08T20:16:01.838Z
Link: CVE-2023-4255
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2023-12-21T16:15:10.017
Modified: 2024-03-27T03:15:10.537
Link: CVE-2023-4255
Redhat
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