CVE-2016-9424

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Dec 12, 2016
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Nov 18, 2016

Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

GLSA-201701-08vendor-advisory
https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog
94407vdb-entry
https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/12
[oss-security] 20161118 Re: CVE request: w3m - multiple vulnerabilitiesmailing-list

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