An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. w3m doesn't properly validate the value of tag attribute, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap buffer overflow crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.
                
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2016-12-12T02:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T02:50:38.338Z
Reserved: 2016-11-18T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-9424
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 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Deferred
Published: 2016-12-12T02:59:12.997
Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Link: CVE-2016-9424
 Redhat
                        Redhat