CVE-2016-9438

NameCVE-2016-9438
DescriptionAn 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.
SourceCVE (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 PackageReleaseVersionStatus
w3m (PTS)bullseye0.5.3+git20210102-6+deb11u1fixed
sid, trixie, bookworm0.5.3+git20230121-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
w3msourcejessie0.5.3-19+deb8u1
w3msource(unstable)0.5.3-30

Notes

[wheezy] - w3m <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/18

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