Bug 918564 (CVE-2023-38252, CVE-2023-38253)

Summary:	www-client/w3m: multiple vulnerabilities
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	John Helmert III <ajak>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	minor	CC:	nrk, proxy-maint
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	B4 [upstream/ebuild]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description John Helmert III archtester

2023-11-25 22:39:26 UTC

CVE-2023-38252 (https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/270):

An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in w3m, in the Strnew_size function in Str.c. This issue may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service through a crafted HTML file.

CVE-2023-38253 (https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/271):

An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in w3m, in the growbuf_to_Str function in indep.c. This issue may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service through a crafted HTML file.

Fixes in https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/25fb402cea405b263466c627f32513d186a38ade from https://github.com/tats/w3m/pull/273, seemingly not in any release.