CVE-2018-6196
w3m - security update
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.67%
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.
How to fix CVE-2018-6196
To remediate CVE-2018-6196, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/w3m—upgrade to 0.5.3_git20241203-r0 or later
- Debian/w3m—upgrade to 0.5.3-36 or later
- —upgrade to 0.5.3-19+deb8u3 or later
Is CVE-2018-6196 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 0.5.3_git20241203-r0
- from 0, < 0.5.3-36
- from 0, < 0.5.3-19+deb8u3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |