Bug 1399705 (CVE-2016-9441)

Summary: CVE-2016-9441 w3m: Null pointer dereference in do_refill
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Bug Depends On: 1401423, 1401424    
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-11-29 15:23:27 UTC
A null pointer dereference will occur in w3m while parsing maliciously crafted input.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/24

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/a6257663824c63abb3c62c4dd62455fe6f63d958

References:

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

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-12-05 08:53:09 UTC
Created w3m tracking bugs for this issue:

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