Denial of service in w3m - CVE-2018-6196
Published: February 5, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU10373
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6196
CWE-ID: CWE-674
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: w3m.sourceforge.net
Affected software:
w3m
w3m
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists due to the feed_table_block_tag function in table.c does not prevent a negative indent value. A remote attacker can trigger an infinite recursion flaw in HTMLlineproc0 and cause the service to crash.
The weakness exists due to the feed_table_block_tag function in table.c does not prevent a negative indent value. A remote attacker can trigger an infinite recursion flaw in HTMLlineproc0 and cause the service to crash.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-6196
Install update from vendor's website.