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This flaw affects the Tatsuya Kinoshita fork of w3m before 0.5.3-33. A malicious HTML page can crash the program through a heap buffer overflow. The business impact is availability and reliability, not confirmed data theft or code execution in the provided sources. Exposure is most likely where w3m processes untrusted or externally supplied HTML, including user browsing, automation, mail or documentation rendering, and server-side text conversion workflows. Treat this as a targeted remediation item for environments that use w3m on untrusted content. It is not KEV-listed in the bundle, but service crashes can still disrupt workflows. Mitigation focus: Upgrade the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork to 0.5.3-33 or later where available.; Confirm distro package versions because downstream numbering may differ from upstream.; Limit w3m use on untrusted HTML until patched..
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- https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLogCVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/38CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
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