CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-6196
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-01-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-835
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.
Affected configurations
• tats w3m (<= 0.5.3)
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 17.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00028.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/8354763b90490d4105695df52674d0fcef823e92 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/88 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00025.html lists.debian.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2/ Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00028.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/8354763b90490d4105695df52674d0fcef823e92 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/88 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00025.html lists.debian.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2/ Third Party Advisory