ALPINE-CVE-2018-6196

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Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-6196
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2018-6196.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2018-6196
Upstream
Published
2018-01-25T03:29:00.447Z
Modified
2025-12-03T22:49:01.520796Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

w3m through 0.5.3 is prone to an infinite recursion flaw in HTMLlineproc0 because the feedtableblock_tag function in table.c does not prevent a negative indent value.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.23 / w3m

Package

Name
w3m
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/w3m?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.5.3_git20241203-r0

Affected versions

0.*

0.5.3-r0
0.5.3-r1
0.5.3-r2
0.5.4-r0
0.5.5-r0

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2018-6196.json"