CVE-2023-4255 (GCVE-0-2023-4255)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-12-21 16:08
Modified
2025-02-13 17:09
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
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