vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-9436: w3m -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 20, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

parsetagx.c in w3m before 0.5.3+git20161009 does not properly initialize values, which allows remote attackers to crash the application via a crafted html file, related to a <i> tag.

Solution

debian-upgrade-w3m
Title
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