CVE-2016-9436 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2016-9436?

CVE-2016-9436 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Opensuse Leap, published on 20 Jan 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

parsetagx.c in w3m before 0.5.3+git20161009 does not properly initialize values, which allows remote attackers to crash the application via a crafted html file, related to a <i> tag.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-9436?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Project Leap, Tats W3m.

How do I fix CVE-2016-9436?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2016-9436 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-9436 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Leap

• CVE-2015-4902 Oracle Java SE Integrity Check Exploited Medium 5.3
• CVE-2017-14804 package builds could use directory traversal to write outside of target area Critical 9.9
• CVE-2019-20787 Teeworlds before 0.7.4 has an integer overflow when computing a tilemap size. Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-8341 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-6438 Other in n/a Critical 9.8

All Opensuse Leap vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9436, GHSA-5j3m-7p74-crqv, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9436.