Bug 1399737 (CVE-2016-9630) - CVE-2016-9630 w3m: Buffer-overflow in parseURL()
Summary: CVE-2016-9630 w3m: Buffer-overflow in parseURL()
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-9630
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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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 15:50 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:01 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-03-17 08:04:35 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-11-29 15:50:27 UTC 
A heap-buffer overflow was found in w3m.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/41

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/ba9d78faeba9024c3e8840579c3b0e959ae2cb0f

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/488
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-12-05 08:54:23 UTC 
Created w3m tracking bugs for this issue:

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