Security advisory

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  "id": "e69f74da83858e2ab89c5c8a74f6b767b82d7bd5cf220a4dadb3d406e139abd6",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9442",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-9442",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. w3m allows remote attackers to cause memory corruption in certain conditions via a crafted HTML page.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-9442",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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        "CVE-2016-9442"
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
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      "affected": [
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              "repo": "https://github.com/tats/w3m",
              "type": "GIT",
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                  "fixed": "d43527cfa0dbb3ccefec4a6f7b32c1434739aa29"
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                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
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            "v0.5.3+git20151010",
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            "debian/0.5.3-23",
            "v0.5.3+git20150720",
            "debian/0.5.3-22",
            "v0.5.3+git20150623",
            "debian/0.5.3-21",
            "v0.5.3+git20150509",
            "debian/0.5.3-20",
            "v0.5.3+git20150203",
            "debian/0.5.3-18",
            "debian/0.5.3-17",
            "debian/0.5.3-16",
            "debian/0.5.3-15",
            "debian/0.5.3-14",
            "debian/0.5.3-13",
            "debian/0.5.3-12",
            "debian/0.5.3-11",
            "debian/0.5.3-10",
            "debian/0.5.3-9",
            "debian/0.5.3-8",
            "upstream/0.5.3",
            "debian/0.5.3-7",
            "debian/0.5.3-6",
            "debian/0.5.3-5",
            "debian/0.5.3-4",
            "debian/0.5.3-3",
            "debian/0.5.3-2",
            "debian/0.5.3-1",
            "debian/0.5.2-10",
            "upstream/0.5.2",
            "debian/0.5.2-9",
            "debian/0.5.2-8",
            "debian/0.5.2-7",
            "debian/0.5.2-6",
            "debian/0.5.2-5",
            "debian/0.5.2-4",
            "debian/0.5.2-3",
            "debian/0.5.2-2.1",
            "debian/0.5.2-2",
            "debian/0.5.2-1",
            "debian/0.5.1-5.1",
            "upstream/0.5.1",
            "debian/0.5.1-5",
            "debian/0.5.1-4",
            "debian/0.5.1-3",
            "debian/0.5.1-1",
            "debian/0.3-2.4",
            "upstream/0.3",
            "debian/0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23-4",
            "upstream/0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9442.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:47:31.634910661Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08",
        "https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog",
        "https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/d43527cfa0dbb3ccefec4a6f7b32c1434739aa29"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-9442",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 379475,
  "published_at": "2016-12-12T02:59:34.347+00:00"
}