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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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-2023-38252)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-aeb75f8b5b advisory.

    - Added upstream patch to fix out-of-bounds access due to multiple backspaces to address incomplete fix     for CVE-2022-38223 (#2222775, #2222780, #2255207)


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-3fc66f8bf3 advisory.

    - Added upstream patch to fix out-of-bounds access due to multiple backspaces to address incomplete fix     for CVE-2022-38223 (#2222775, #2222780, #2255207)


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-38c2261ca0 advisory.

    - Added upstream patch to fix out-of-bounds access due to multiple backspaces to address incomplete fix     for CVE-2022-38223 (#2222775, #2222780, #2255207)


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4439-1 advisory.

  - 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-2023-38252)

  - 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. (CVE-2023-38253)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
257469	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-38252	Nessus	Misc.	medium
194642	Fedora 40 : w3m (2024-aeb75f8b5b)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
192594	Fedora 39 : w3m (2024-3fc66f8bf3)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
192593	Fedora 38 : w3m (2024-38c2261ca0)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
185730	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : w3m (SUSE-SU-2023:4439-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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