CVE-2018-6196

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)
References	DLA-2195-1
NVD severity	medium

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
w3m (PTS)	stretch	0.5.3-34+deb9u1	fixed
	buster	0.5.3-37	fixed
	bullseye	0.5.3+git20210102-6	fixed
	bookworm, sid	0.5.3+git20220429-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin
w3m	source	jessie	0.5.3-19+deb8u3		DLA-2195-1
w3m	source	stretch	0.5.3-34+deb9u1
w3m	source	(unstable)	0.5.3-36	low

Notes

[wheezy] - w3m <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/88
https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/8354763b90490d4105695df52674d0fcef823e92