CVE-2018-6196

high

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.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00028.html

https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/8354763b90490d4105695df52674d0fcef823e92

https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/88

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2/

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2018-01-25

Updated: 2019-10-03

Type: CWE-835

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: HIGH