debian · CVE-2023-38253

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Priority: unimportant Published: Updated: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:01:09 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2023-38253 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (w3m), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): open 5.

Description:

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.

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