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CVE-2016-9629 is a crash bug in the Tatsuya Kinoshita fork of w3m before 0.5.3-33. A malicious HTML page can make w3m segfault and stop. The known impact is denial of service, not data theft or code execution. Exposure is most likely where w3m is installed for interactive browsing, mail/HTML rendering, scripts, crawlers, or text-based conversion of untrusted HTML. The provided affected-product metadata is incomplete, so confirm exact package lineage and version locally. Prioritize remediation where w3m processes untrusted HTML automatically or supports operational workflows. For ordinary interactive use, urgency is lower, but patching is still appropriate because exploitation can crash the tool remotely. Mitigation focus: Inventory systems and containers for w3m installations.; Confirm whether the Tatsuya Kinoshita fork is before 0.5.3-33.; Upgrade to 0.5.3-33 or later where vendor packaging confirms the fix..
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- https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/40CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLogCVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
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