Bug 1399689 (CVE-2016-9432) - CVE-2016-9432 w3m: Segmentation fault due to bcopy with negative size
Summary: CVE-2016-9432 w3m: Segmentation fault due to bcopy with negative size
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-9432
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: 1401423 1401424
Blocks: 1399744
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-11-29 15:00 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:01 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-03-17 07:49:47 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-11-29 15:00:31 UTC 
A segmentation fault will occur in w3m while parsing maliciously crafted input.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/13

Upstream fixes:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/807e8b7fbffca6dcaf5db40e35f05d05c5cf02d3
https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/7b88478227978a8d673b4dd0e05eee410cc33330

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/321
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-12-05 08:52:10 UTC 
Created w3m tracking bugs for this issue:

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