CVE-2016-9431

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. Infinite recursion vulnerability in w3m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTML page.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08

https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/10

https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94407

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-12-12

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H