gsd-2016-9440
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:21
Details
An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. w3m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a crafted HTML page.
Aliases
Aliases
CVE-2016-9440


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    "id": "GSD-2016-9440",
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      "https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9440.html",
      "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9440",
      "https://advisories.mageia.org/CVE-2016-9440.html",
      "https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2016-9440"
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