Vulnerability CVE-2016-9633
Published: 2016-12-11   Modified: 2016-12-12

Description:
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 (infinite loop and resource consumption) via a crafted HTML page.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
W3m project -> W3M 

 References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/24/1
https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog
https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/23
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