Bug 1399723 (CVE-2016-9626) - CVE-2016-9626 w3m: Infinite recursion in HTMLlineproc0
Summary: CVE-2016-9626 w3m: Infinite recursion in HTMLlineproc0
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-9626
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 15:41 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:01 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-03-17 07:19:49 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-11-29 15:41:04 UTC 
An infinite recursion will occur in w3m while parsing maliciously crafted input.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/37

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/e458def067859615ce4bc7170733d368f49d63c2

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/488
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-12-05 08:53:53 UTC 
Created w3m tracking bugs for this issue:

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