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Bug 1399728 - (CVE-2016-9627) CVE-2016-9627 w3m: Array index out of bounds in display.c
CVE-2016-9627 w3m: Array index out of bounds in display.c
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=low,public=20161113,reported=2...
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Depends On: 1401423 1401424
Blocks: 1399744
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Reported: 2016-11-29 10:43 EST by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2017-03-17 03:38 EDT (History)
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-11-29 10:43:43 EST
An array index can be out of bounds in w3m while parsing maliciously crafted input.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/38

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/0c3f5d0e0d9269ad47b8f4b061d7818993913189

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/488
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-12-05 03:53:59 EST
Created w3m tracking bugs for this issue:

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

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