Security readout for executives and security teams
CVE-2016-9625 is a denial-of-service issue in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-33. A crafted HTML page can trigger infinite recursion and crash or hang the browser process. Business impact is mainly availability disruption where w3m processes untrusted web or HTML content. Exposure is likely limited to hosts, users, scripts, or text-browser workflows that run the affected w3m fork and render untrusted HTML. Systems without w3m, or with versions at or beyond the fixed distribution package, are not indicated as exposed by the provided sources. Prioritize remediation where w3m is used in automated workflows or exposed user environments that handle untrusted HTML. This is availability-focused, not currently evidenced as data compromise or active exploitation in the provided sources. Mitigation focus: Inventory w3m installations and identify versions before 0.5.3-33.; Upgrade affected systems using trusted vendor or distribution packages.; Restrict w3m from processing untrusted HTML until patched..
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- https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/36CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLogCVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
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