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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6196

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 nega...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 w3m

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.5.3-36"}]}]

Debian:13 w3m

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.5.3-36"}]}]

Debian:14 w3m

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.5.3-36"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org