CVE-2016-9438 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork, specifically versions prior to 0.5.3-31. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the w3m browser via a specially crafted HTML page, leading to a segmentation fault. Rated as Medium severity (CVSS 6.5), it requires user interaction (UI:R) but can be exploited over the network (AV:N) with low complexity (AC:L), resulting in high availability impact (A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.5.3-30CPE 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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