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.

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-7d2f942be2 advisory.

    - Added upstream patch to address CVE-2022-38223 (#2126270)

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 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 Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3541 advisory.

  - 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)

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0066-1 advisory.

  - 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)

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0065-1 advisory.

  - 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)

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

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5796-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that w3m incorrectly handled certain HTML files. A remote attacker could use this issue     to cause w3m to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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

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

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-ce04ff8b49 advisory.

    - Added upstream patch to address CVE-2022-38223 (#2126270)

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
211439	Fedora 37 : w3m (2022-7d2f942be2)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
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
180182	Debian DLA-3541-1 : w3m - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
169980	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : w3m (SUSE-SU-2023:0066-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
169931	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : w3m (SUSE-SU-2023:0065-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
169712	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : w3m vulnerability (USN-5796-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
169441	Fedora 36 : w3m (2022-ce04ff8b49)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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