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CVE-2016-9626

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-12-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

• Tats W3M: through 0.5.3-32

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/24/1
• https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog
• https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/37
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/24/1
• https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog
• https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/37

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