Description
An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. Heap-based buffer overflow in the addMultirowsForm function in w3m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.
Published: 2016-12-12
Score: 8.8 High
EPSS: 1.6% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3214-1 w3m vulnerabilities
History

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 19:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-120
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-10-15T19:01:25.842Z

Reserved: 2016-11-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-9428

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:50:38.402Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-12-12T02:59:17.843

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-9428

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-08-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-9428 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses