Bug 1539151 (CVE-2018-6197) - CVE-2018-6197 w3m: Null pointer dereference in formUpdateBuffer in form.c
Summary: CVE-2018-6197 w3m: Null pointer dereference in formUpdateBuffer in form.c
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2018-6197
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1539152 1539153 1539154
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-01-26 19:28 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:31 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: w3m 0.5.3+git20180125
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Last Closed: 2018-06-24 08:52:44 UTC
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-01-26 19:28:10 UTC 
w3m through 0.5.3 is prone to a NULL pointer dereference flaw in formUpdateBuffer in form.c.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/89

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/7fdc83b0364005a0b5ed869230dd81752ba022e8
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-01-26 19:28:36 UTC 
Created w3m tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1539153]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1539154]
Comment 3 Parag Nemade 2018-06-24 08:52:44 UTC 
Fixed for all the requested releases.
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