vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3214-1 (CVE-2016-9622): w3m vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 11, 2016
Added
Mar 3, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-33. w3m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a crafted HTML page.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-w3m
Title
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