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CVE-2016-9424

CVE-2016-9424

EPSS 3.2%
An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. w3m doesn't properly validate the value of tag attribute, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap buffer overflow crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.
Affected products
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References
https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLoghttps://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/12https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94407