| Name | CVE-2018-6196 |
| Description | w3m through 0.5.3 is prone to an infinite recursion flaw in HTMLlineproc0 because the feed_table_block_tag function in table.c does not prevent a negative indent value. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| NVD severity | medium |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| w3m (PTS) | jessie | 0.5.3-19+deb8u2 | vulnerable |
| stretch | 0.5.3-34+deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster, bullseye, sid | 0.5.3-37 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| w3m | source | (unstable) | 0.5.3-36 | low | | |
| w3m | source | stretch | 0.5.3-34+deb9u1 | | | |
Notes
[jessie] - w3m <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - w3m <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/88
https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/8354763b90490d4105695df52674d0fcef823e92