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CVE-2016-9630 (GCVE-0-2016-9630)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-12-12 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:59
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Summary
An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-33. w3m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (global buffer overflow and crash) via a crafted HTML page.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-11-22 00:00
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