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CVE-2016-9439

Published: 11 December 2016

An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. Infinite recursion vulnerability in w3m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTML page.

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
w3m
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise
Released (0.5.3-5ubuntu1.2)
trusty
Released (0.5.3-15ubuntu0.1)
upstream Needed

xenial
Released (0.5.3-26ubuntu0.1)
yakkety Ignored
(end of life)
zesty Not vulnerable
(0.5.3-33)
Patches:
debian: https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/f393faf55975a94217df479e1bd06ee4403c6958

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H