Bug 1399739 – CVE-2016-9632 w3m: Buffer-overflow in wc_any_to_ucs()

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Bug 1399739 - (CVE-2016-9632) CVE-2016-9632 w3m: Buffer-overflow in wc_any_to_ucs()

Summary:	CVE-2016-9632 w3m: Buffer-overflow in wc_any_to_ucs()

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2016-9632

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1401423 1401424
Blocks:	1399744
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Reported:	2016-11-29 10:52 EST by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2017-03-17 04:28 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2017-03-17 04:28:59 EDT
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-11-29 10:52:09 EST

A heap-buffer overflow was found in w3m.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/43

Upstream fixes:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/716bc126638393c733399d11d3228edb82877faa
https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/88110c2658ad9badd292430c75ebb0444c3312eb

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/488

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-12-05 03:54:29 EST

Created w3m tracking bugs for this issue:

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

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