Bug 1399740 – CVE-2016-9633 w3m: Memory exhaustion due to repeatedly appending '<table>'

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Bug 1399740 - (CVE-2016-9633) CVE-2016-9633 w3m: Memory exhaustion due to repeatedly appending '<table>'

Summary:	CVE-2016-9633 w3m: Memory exhaustion due to repeatedly appending '<table>'

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2016-9633

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 10:53 EST by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2017-03-17 03:27 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-11-29 10:53:56 EST

A memory exhaustion will occur in w3m while parsing maliciously crafted input.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/23

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/216722ed7282cec4338b177ea9ffdd39ad1b8c8c

References:

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

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-12-05 03:54:36 EST

Created w3m tracking bugs for this issue:

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

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