CVE-2016-9424 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.99% · 76.8th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.99%
76.8th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSw3m0, 0.5.3-11, 0.5.3-12
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSw3m0, 0.5.3-24, 0.5.3-25

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