Bug 1399667 (CVE-2016-9428)

Summary:	CVE-2016-9428 w3m: Out-of-bounds write in addMultirowsForm()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	eng-i18n-bugs, i18n-bugs, pnemade
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Bug Depends On:	1401423, 1401424
Bug Blocks:	1399744

Description Andrej Nemec 2016-11-29 14:37:14 UTC

An out of bounds heap write will occur while parsing malicously crafted input, crashing the application or having other unspecified impact.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/26

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/4e464819dd360ffd3d58fa2a89216fe413cfcc74

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/321

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-12-05 08:51:38 UTC

Created w3m tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1401423]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1401424]