Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting w3m-img package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.05% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-W3MIMG-1386676
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed23 Jan 2018

Introduced: 23 Jan 2018

CVE-2018-6196  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 w3m-img.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream w3m-img package and not the w3m-img package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.