CVE-2023-38253
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-07-14 17:07
Modified
2024-08-02 17:39
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
W3m: out of bounds read in growbuf_to_str() at w3m/indep.c
References
Impacted products
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