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CVE record · CVE-2023-38253

W3m: out of bounds read in growbuf_to_str() at w3m/indep.c

CVSS 4.7 MediumEPSS 0.0036 · 29th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 14 Jul 2023, 17:07 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Not given w3m No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Package name: w3m https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Package name: w3m https://packages.fedoraproject.org/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Fedora Fedora Package name: w3m https://packages.fedoraproject.org/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2023-38253
CNA
redhat
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-125
Tags
Published
14 Jul 2023
Updated
13 Feb 2025

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
4.7 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CNA (redhat)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0036, the 29th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 14 Jul 2023. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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