PT-2016-7749 · W3M+2 · W3M+2

Kcwu · Published 2016-12-11 · Updated 2023-12-29 · CVE-2016-9431

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions w3m versions prior to 0.5.3-31

Description An issue in w3m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTML page due to an infinite recursion vulnerability.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.5.3-31, update to version 0.5.3-31 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2020-3081

ALT-PU-2020-3099

CVE-2016-9431

MGASA-2018-0024

USN-3214-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Ubuntu

W3M

References · 53

• https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog · Patch
• https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/10 · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9623 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9431 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9628 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9433 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9633 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9431 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9431 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9443 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9441 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9428 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9424 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9629 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08 · Vendor Advisory