CVE-2016-9440

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 6.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2016-12-12

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-476

Affected products

• W3m (Tats)

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94407
• https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog
• https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/22
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08