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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-6196: Infinite Loop

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-6196: Infinite Loop

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/25/2018
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/22/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-w3m

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