An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. w3m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption, segmentation fault, and crash) via a crafted HTML page.
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/13 | patch issue tracking |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08 | vendor advisory |
| https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog | patch issue tracking |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94407 | vdb entry |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3 | mailing list |