Bug 1399720 (CVE-2016-9625) - CVE-2016-9625 w3m: HTMLlineproc0 infinite recursion
Summary: CVE-2016-9625 w3m: HTMLlineproc0 infinite recursion
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-9625
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1401423 1401424
Blocks: 1399744
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-11-29 15:38 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:01 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2017-03-17 07:23:16 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-11-29 15:38:21 UTC 
An infinite recursion will occur in w3m while parsing maliciously crafted input.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/36

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/ff8510ab954ac5db478964351f6a78891c34f1d8

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/488
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-12-05 08:53:46 UTC 
Created w3m tracking bugs for this issue:

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