CVE-2016-9436 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting w3m versions prior to 0.5.3+git20161009, including specific openSUSE and TATS products. It stems from improper value initialization in parsetagx.c, allowing remote attackers to crash the application via a crafted HTML file containing an <i> tag. The attack requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L) and can lead to high availability impact (A:H), with a CVSS v3 score of 6.5. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low current threat landscape.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
42.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse_project:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 0.5.3\+git20160718CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:tats:w3m:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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