vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-9424: w3m -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/12/2016
Added
07/30/2024
Modified
04/14/2025

Description

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-w3m
Title
NEW

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