PT-2018-17401 · Nihon University+3 · W3M+3

Published 2018-01-24 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2018-6196

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions w3m versions prior to 0.5.4

Description The issue is related to an infinite recursion flaw in the HTMLlineproc0 function due to the feed table block tag function in table.c not preventing a negative indent value.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.5.4, update to version 0.5.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Infinite Loop

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-835

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2020-3081

ALT-PU-2020-3099

CVE-2018-6196

DLA-2195-1

MGASA-2018-0312

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_1142-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11504-1

SUSE-SU-2019:0776-1

SUSE-SU-2019_0776-1

USN-3555-1

USN-3555-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

W3M

References · 34

• 🔥 https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/88 · Exploit
• https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/8354763b90490d4105695df52674d0fcef823e92 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3555-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6196 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0312.html · Security Note
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6198 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-2195-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6197 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2019:0776-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3555-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0312 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00028.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3555-1 · Vendor Advisory