Bug 1399687 (CVE-2016-9431)

Summary:	CVE-2016-9431 w3m: Stack overflow in deleteFrameSet()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	dkholia, eng-i18n-bugs, i18n-bugs, pnemade
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Bug Depends On:	1401423, 1401424
Bug Blocks:	1399744

Description Andrej Nemec 2016-11-29 14:57:21 UTC

A stack overflow (exhaustion) will occur in w3m while parsing maliciously crafted input.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/10

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/9f0bdcfdf061db3520bd1f112bdc5e83acdec4be

References:

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

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-12-05 08:52:03 UTC

Created w3m tracking bugs for this issue:

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