CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-6197

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jan 25, 2018 | Modified: Dec 29, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

w3m through 0.5.3 is prone to a NULL pointer dereference flaw in formUpdateBuffer in form.c.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
W3m Tats * 0.5.3 (including)
W3m Ubuntu artful *
W3m Ubuntu devel *
W3m Ubuntu trusty *
W3m Ubuntu upstream *
W3m Ubuntu xenial *

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