| Name | CVE-2016-9437 |
| 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) and possibly memory corruption via a crafted HTML page. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| w3m (PTS) | bullseye | 0.5.3+git20210102-6+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 0.5.3+git20230121-2 | fixed |
| trixie, sid | 0.5.3+git20230121-2.1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| w3m | source | jessie | 0.5.3-19+deb8u1 | | | |
| w3m | source | (unstable) | 0.5.3-30 | | | |
Notes
[wheezy] - w3m <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/17