CVE-2018-6196

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

7.5

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.587

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support (USN-3214-1) w3m_0.5.3-15ubuntu0.2_i386.deb	Linux
WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support (USN-3214-1) w3m_0.5.3-15ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb	Linux
WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support (USN-3555-1) w3m_0.5.3-15ubuntu0.2_i386.deb	Linux
WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support (USN-3555-1) w3m_0.5.3-15ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb	Linux
WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support (USN-3555-1) w3m_0.5.3-26ubuntu0.2_i386.deb	Linux
WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support (USN-3555-1) w3m_0.5.3-26ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb	Linux
WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support (USN-3555-1) w3m_0.5.3-34ubuntu0.1_i386.deb	Linux
WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support (USN-3555-1) w3m_0.5.3-34ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb	Linux
SUSE-SU-2019:0776-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) w3m-0.5.3.git20161120-161.3.4.x86_64.rpm	Linux
SUSE-SU-2019:0776-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) w3m-debuginfo-0.5.3.git20161120-161.3.4.x86_64.rpm	Linux
SUSE-SU-2019:0776-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) w3m-debugsource-0.5.3.git20161120-161.3.4.x86_64.rpm	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234