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FreeBSD: VID-EAFA3AEC-211B-4DD4-9B8A-A664A3F0917A (CVE-2016-9431): w3m -- multiple vulnerabilities

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FreeBSD: VID-EAFA3AEC-211B-4DD4-9B8A-A664A3F0917A (CVE-2016-9431): w3m -- multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/03/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/03/2017
Modified
05/07/2019

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.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-ja-w3m
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-ja-w3m-img
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-w3m
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-w3m-img

References

  • CVE-2016-9431
  • USN-3214-1

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