CVE-2023-4255

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions W3M (affected versions not specified)

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 issue 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.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.