https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1399664
Bug ID: 1399664 Summary: CVE-2016-9423 w3m: Malformed html tag heap-buffer overflow 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
It is possible in specific circumstances to smash the stack using maliciously crafted input.
Upstream bug:
https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/9
Upstream fix:
https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/9f0bdcfdf061db3520bd1f112bdc5e83acdec4be
References:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/321