ubuntu · CVE-2016-9435

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Priority: low Published: 2017-01-20 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:13:54 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-9435 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (w3m), 6 status rows across 6 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 4, ignored 1, not-affected 1.

Description:

The HTMLtagproc1 function in file.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 <dd> tags.

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