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CVE-2016-9430 is a denial-of-service flaw in the Tatsuya Kinoshita fork of w3m before 0.5.3-31. A crafted HTML page can crash the browser. The cited sources do not indicate code execution, data theft, or active exploitation. Exposure is most likely where w3m is installed on Linux or Unix systems and used to open untrusted HTML. Risk is higher if automation, mail processing, documentation tooling, or monitoring workflows invoke w3m against attacker-controlled web content. Treat this as a contained availability issue. It is not currently supported as a breach-enabling vulnerability by the provided sources, but affected tooling should be updated because crashes can disrupt automated workflows that rely on w3m. Mitigation focus: Inventory systems and scripts that use w3m.; Upgrade w3m to a version including the 0.5.3-31 fix or distribution advisory fix.; Apply Gentoo GLSA-201701-08 guidance where Gentoo packages are used..
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- GLSA-201701-08CVE reference · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLogCVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/7CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
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