https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1399720
Bug ID: 1399720 Summary: CVE-2016-9625 w3m: HTMLlineproc0 infinite recursion Product: Security Response Component: vulnerability Keywords: Security Severity: medium Priority: medium Assignee: security-response-team@redhat.com Reporter: anemec@redhat.com CC: eng-i18n-bugs@redhat.com, i18n-bugs@lists.fedoraproject.org, pnemade@redhat.com
An infinite recursion will occur in w3m while parsing maliciously crafted input.
Upstream bug:
https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/36
Upstream fix:
https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/ff8510ab954ac5db478964351f6a78891c34f1d8
References:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/488