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GSD-2016-9436

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21
Details
parsetagx.c in w3m before 0.5.3+git20161009 does not properly initialize values, which allows remote attackers to crash the application via a crafted html file, related to a <i> tag.
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