CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-9438
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-12-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
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 (segmentation fault and crash) via a crafted HTML page.
Affected configurations
• tats w3m (<= 0.5.3-30)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94407 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/18 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08 security.gentoo.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94407 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/18 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08 security.gentoo.org