Mageia alert MGASA-2023-0006 (w3m)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2023-0006: Updated w3m packages fix security vulnerability
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Fri, 13 Jan 2023 18:38:17 +0100
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MGASA-2023-0006 - Updated w3m packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 13 Jan 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0006.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 8
CVE: CVE-2022-38223

Description:
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)

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31365
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-ann...
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-3...

SRPMS:
- 8/core/w3m-0.5.3-13.git20220429.1.mga8