PT-2016-7755 · Tatsuya Kinoshita+3 · W3M+3

Kcwu + 1 · Published 2016-12-07 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-9439

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 was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork, allowing 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-2016-9439

MGASA-2018-0024

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10235-1

SUSE-SU-2016:3046-1

SUSE-SU-2016:3053-1

USN-3214-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

W3M

References · 115

• https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/20 · Patch
• https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9628 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9433 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9443 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9428 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9424 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9440 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9625 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0024.html · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3214-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9439 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9439 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9422 · Vendor Advisory