CVE-2016-9440 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork prior to version 0.5.3-31. A remote attacker can trigger a segmentation fault and crash the w3m browser by enticing a user to open a specially crafted HTML page. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) requires user interaction and has a high impact on availability, but no impact on confidentiality or integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available 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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