CVE-2023-4255 An out-of-bounds write issue has been discovered in the backspace handling of the checkType() function in etc.c within…

Description

An out-of-bounds write issue has been discovered in the backspace handling of the checkType() function in etc.c within the W3M application. This vulnerability is triggered by supplying a specially crafted HTML file to the w3m binary. Exploitation of this flaw could lead to application crashes, resulting in a denial of service condition.

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