CVE-2018-6196 (GCVE-0-2018-6196)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-01-25 03:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 05:54
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/8354763b90490d… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/88 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public ?
2018-01-24 00:00
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