CVE-2016-9439: 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…

PriorityP424medium6.5CVSS 3.0

AVNACLPRNUIRSUCNINAH

EPSS

1.82%

76.0th percentile

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.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	w3m	< w3m 0.5.3-33 (bookworm)	w3m 0.5.3-33 (bookworm)
tats	w3m	<= 0.5.3-30	—
tats	w3m	>= 0 < 0.5.3-33	0.5.3-33
tats	w3m	>= 0 < 0.5.3-33	0.5.3-33
tats	w3m	>= 0 < 0.5.3-33	0.5.3-33
tats	w3m	>= 0 < 0.5.3-33	0.5.3-33

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.06.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv6.5MEDIUM

vendor_debian6.5MEDIUM

vendor_redhat6.5MEDIUM

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