Bug 1539151 (CVE-2018-6197)

Summary:	CVE-2018-6197 w3m: Null pointer dereference in formUpdateBuffer in form.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	eng-i18n-bugs, pnemade, redhat-bugzilla
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	w3m 0.5.3+git20180125	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed:	2018-06-24 08:52:44 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1539152, 1539153, 1539154
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-01-26 19:28:10 UTC

w3m through 0.5.3 is prone to a NULL pointer dereference flaw in formUpdateBuffer in form.c.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/89

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/7fdc83b0364005a0b5ed869230dd81752ba022e8

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-01-26 19:28:36 UTC

Created w3m tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1539153]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1539154]

Comment 3 Parag Nemade 2018-06-24 08:52:44 UTC

Fixed for all the requested releases.