High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 12, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-9424
CVE-2016-9424
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.
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Affected products
4- osv-coords2 versionspkg:rpm/suse/w3m&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/w3m&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2011%20SP4
< 0.5.3.git20161120-4.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.3.git20161120-4.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.3.git20161120-4.1
Patches
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References
5- github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLognvdIssue TrackingPatch
- github.com/tats/w3m/issues/12nvdIssue TrackingPatch
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/94407nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08nvd
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