PT-2018-17402 · W3M+3 · W3M+3

Kcwu · Published 2018-01-24 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2018-6197

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 0.5.3

Description The issue is related to a NULL pointer dereference flaw in the formUpdateBuffer function in form.c.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.5.3, update to version 0.5.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2020-3081

ALT-PU-2020-3099

CVE-2018-6197

DLA-2195-1

MGASA-2018-0312

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_1142-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11504-1

SUSE-SU-2019:0776-1

USN-3555-1

USN-3555-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

W3M

References · 35

• 🔥 https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/89 · Exploit
• https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/7fdc83b0364005a0b5ed869230dd81752ba022e8 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3555-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6197 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6198 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6197 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-2195-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2019:0776-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3555-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6197 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6197 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6197 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6196 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0312.html · Security Note