High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 25, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-6196
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.
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Affected products
8- osv-coords7 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/w3m&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/w3m&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/w3m&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/w3m&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/w3m&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/w3m&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/w3m&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP4
< 0.5.3+git20180125-1.14+ 6 more
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.3+git20180125-1.14
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.3.git20161120-161.3.4
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.3.git20161120-161.3.4
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.3.git20161120-161.3.4
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.3.git20161120-161.3.4
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.3.git20161120-161.3.4
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.3.git20161120-161.3.4
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
6- github.com/tats/w3m/commit/8354763b90490d4105695df52674d0fcef823e92nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- github.com/tats/w3m/issues/88nvdExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1/nvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2/nvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00028.htmlnvd
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00025.htmlnvd
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