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Alpine: multiple w3m packages: security update to 0.5.3.20230121-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 426540

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2022-38223)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-38223

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 426540

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Published: 5/16/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-38223

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/15/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-38223