NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package w3m (opens in a new tab)
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- published12 Dec 2016
- disclosed12 Dec 2016
Introduced: 12 Dec 2016
CVE-2016-9629 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream w3m package and not the w3m package as distributed by Ubuntu.
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 (segmentation fault and crash) via a crafted HTML page.