Bug 1324348 - w3m: denial of service with crafted html files
Summary: w3m: denial of service with crafted html files
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1324349 1324350 1336287
Blocks: 1324351
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-04-06 06:51 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:46 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-05-16 06:09:08 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-04-06 06:51:22 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in w3m package. A maliciously crafted html file opened with specific command could cause the application to crash.

Original bug report (reproducer attached):

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=820162
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-04-06 06:51:49 UTC 
Created w3m tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1324349]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1324350]
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-05-16 06:07:22 UTC 
Created emacs-common-w3m tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1336287]
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2016-05-16 19:06:17 UTC 
w3m-0.5.3-20.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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