Bug 1399707 (CVE-2016-9442)

Summary:	CVE-2016-9442 w3m: Potential heap-buffer corruption due to Strgrow
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 15:26:14 UTC

A potential heap-buffer corruption will occur in w3m while parsing maliciously crafted data.

Upstream pull request:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/pull/27

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/d43527cfa0dbb3ccefec4a6f7b32c1434739aa29

References:

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

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-12-05 08:53:15 UTC

Created w3m tracking bugs for this issue:

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