CVE-2016-9436: Opensuse Leap

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Opensuse Leap: version 42.2 only
• Opensuse Project Leap: version 42.1 only
• Tats w3m: up to and including 0.5.3\+git20160718

Published 2017-01-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.