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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-6196): w3m vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-6196): w3m vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/24/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/02/2018
Modified
03/02/2020

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-w3m

References

  • USN-3555-1
  • USN-3555-2
  • CVE-2018-6196

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