High severity · published Dec 12, 2016
CVE-2016-9428
An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31
8.8
CVSS
3.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.3% · higher than 89% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
W3
W3m · Tats
through 0.5.3-30 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9428
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9428
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3
www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94407
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/26
security.gentoo.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08
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