CVE-2018-6196 — Infinite Loop in W3M

CWE-835 — Infinite Loop12 documents8 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.6%
top 30.87%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Tats W3MCanonical Ubuntu Linux
Timeline
PublishedJan 25
Latest updateMay 13

Description

w3m through 0.5.3 is prone to an infinite recursion flaw in HTMLlineproc0 because the feed_table_block_tag function in table.c does not prevent a negative indent value.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶Debiantats/w3m< 0.5.3-36+3
▶Ubuntutats/w3m< 0.5.3-15ubuntu0.2+1
▶NVDtats/w3m0.5.3

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 17.10

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-rhw8-jfw3-7w97: w3m through 0↗2022-05-13
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OSV
w3m vulnerabilities↗2018-02-01
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CVEList
CVE-2018-6196: w3m through 0↗2018-01-25
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OSV
CVE-2018-6196: w3m through 0↗2018-01-25
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
w3m vulnerabilities↗2018-02-01
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Ubuntu
w3m vulnerabilities↗2018-02-01
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Red Hat
w3m: Infinite recursion in HTMLlineproc0↗2018-01-23
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Debian
CVE-2018-6196: w3m - w3m through 0.5.3 is prone to an infinite recursion flaw in HTMLlineproc0 becaus...↗2018
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-6196 w3m: Infinite recursion in HTMLlineproc0 [epel-7]↗2018-01-26
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-6196 w3m: Infinite recursion in HTMLlineproc0 [fedora-all]↗2018-01-26
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-6196 w3m: Infinite recursion in HTMLlineproc0↗2018-01-26
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