w3m: CVE-2022-38223

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w3m: CVE-2022-38223

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From: Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: w3m: CVE-2022-38223

Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 22:35:41 +0200

Source: w3m
X-Debbugs-CC: team@security.debian.org
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for w3m.

CVE-2022-38223[0]:
| 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.

https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/242

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-38223
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-38223

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

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