Bug 1399701 (CVE-2016-9439) - CVE-2016-9439 w3m: Infinite recursion with nested table and textarea
Summary: CVE-2016-9439 w3m: Infinite recursion with nested table and textarea
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-9439
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 15:20 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:01 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-03-17 07:09:44 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-11-29 15:20:37 UTC 
An infinite recursion leading to segmentation fault will occur in w3m while parsing maliciously crafter input.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/20

Upstream fixes:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/f393faf55975a94217df479e1bd06ee4403c6958
https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/2a4a2fb9f116b50e7c80d573db06c0fdc6c69272
https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/ec99f186380d26ebf791569fdbc56dae60632365

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/321
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-12-05 08:52:55 UTC 
Created w3m tracking bugs for this issue:

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