An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. w3m doesn't properly validate the value of tag attribute, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap buffer overflow crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2016-12-12T02:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:50:38.338Z

Reserved: 2016-11-18T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-9424

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-12-12T02:59:12.997

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:01:10.600

Link: CVE-2016-9424

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-08-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-9424 - Bugzilla