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CVE-2016-9434 is a crash vulnerability in the Tatsuya Kinoshita fork of w3m before 0.5.3-31. A malicious HTML page could cause w3m to segfault and exit. Sources describe denial of service only, not code execution or data theft. Exposure is most likely on Unix-like systems where w3m is installed and used to open untrusted HTML, including terminal browsing, mail rendering, or scripted content retrieval. It is not described as a network service vulnerability. Treat this as a contained availability risk. Prioritize patching where w3m processes untrusted web or email content, but it should not outrank vulnerabilities with confirmed exploitation or code execution impact. Mitigation focus: Upgrade w3m to 0.5.3-31 or a vendor package containing the fix.; Follow the Gentoo GLSA if running affected Gentoo packages.; Check your OS vendor advisory for the fixed package version..
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- GLSA-201701-08CVE reference · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/15CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLogCVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
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