CVE-2018-6196
Estado: ModificadaAlta (7.5)—
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.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.0
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 7.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 2.94%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 87
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (2)
CWE
- CWE-835
Referencias
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00028.html
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/8354763b90490d4105695df52674d0fcef823e92
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/88
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00025.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00028.html
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/8354763b90490d4105695df52674d0fcef823e92
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/88
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00025.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2/
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