CVE-2016-9625

MEDIUM

Tats W3m < 0.5.3-32 - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-33. Infinite recursion vulnerability in w3m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTML page.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/36
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/24/1

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0075
EPSS Percentile 73.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (1)
tats/w3m < 0.5.3-32
Published Dec 12, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026