Security Advisory
CVE-2023-4255
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
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.
Published Date
December 21, 2023
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory