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CVE-2016-9435

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The HTMLtagproc1 function in file.c in w3m before 0.5.3+git20161009 does not properly initialize values, which allows remote attackers to crash the application via a crafted html file, related to <dd> tags.

Affected products

• openSUSE Leap: 42.2
• Opensuse Project Leap: 42.1
• Tats W3M: through 0.5.3\+git20160718

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00084.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94407
• https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/33509cc81ec5f2ba44eb6fd98bd5c1b5873e46bd
• https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/16
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00084.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94407
• https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/33509cc81ec5f2ba44eb6fd98bd5c1b5873e46bd
• https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/16
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08

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