CVE-2018-6196
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6196
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6196.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-6196
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2018-01-25T03:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-10-21T04:37:45.492111Z
- 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
-
- 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/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00028.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00025.html
Affected packages
Git / github.com/tats/w3m
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/tats/w3m
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed
Affected versions
upstream/0.*
upstream/0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23
upstream/0.3
upstream/0.5.1
upstream/0.5.2
upstream/0.5.3
v0.*
v0.5.3+debian-19
v0.5.3+git20150203
v0.5.3+git20150509
v0.5.3+git20150623
v0.5.3+git20150720
v0.5.3+git20150811
v0.5.3+git20151010
v0.5.3+git20151119
v0.5.3+git20160228
v0.5.3+git20160511
v0.5.3+git20160718
v0.5.3+git20161009
v0.5.3+git20161031
v0.5.3+git20161120
v0.5.3+git20170102
Database specific
vanir_signatures
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"source": "https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/8354763b90490d4105695df52674d0fcef823e92",
"signature_version": "v1",
"digest": {
"function_hash": "278690477708259092384061663626912926247",
"length": 837.0
},
"target": {
"function": "feed_table_block_tag",
"file": "table.c"
},
"id": "CVE-2018-6196-0c94ae60",
"deprecated": false,
"signature_type": "Function"
},
{
"source": "https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/8354763b90490d4105695df52674d0fcef823e92",
"signature_version": "v1",
"digest": {
"threshold": 0.9,
"line_hashes": [
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]
},
"target": {
"file": "table.c"
},
"id": "CVE-2018-6196-2fc2f8b5",
"deprecated": false,
"signature_type": "Line"
}
]