Bug 1399707 (CVE-2016-9442) - CVE-2016-9442 w3m: Potential heap-buffer corruption due to Strgrow
Summary: CVE-2016-9442 w3m: Potential heap-buffer corruption due to Strgrow
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-9442
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1401423 1401424
Blocks: 1399744
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-11-29 15:26 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:01 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-03-17 09:04:33 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-11-29 15:26:14 UTC 
A potential heap-buffer corruption will occur in w3m while parsing maliciously crafted data.

Upstream pull request:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/pull/27

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/d43527cfa0dbb3ccefec4a6f7b32c1434739aa29

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/321
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-12-05 08:53:15 UTC 
Created w3m tracking bugs for this issue:

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