CVE-2016-9424 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in W3M

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write8 documents8 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.0%
top 23.06%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Tats W3M
Timeline
PublishedDec 12
Latest updateMay 17

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debiantats/w3m< 0.5.3-30+3
▶NVDtats/w3m0.5.3-30

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-8qc7-2fj9-qrqv: An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2016-9424: An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0↗2016-12-12
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CVEList
CVE-2016-9424: An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0↗2016-12-12
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
w3m vulnerabilities↗2017-03-02
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Red Hat
w3m: Out-of-bounds heap write due to negative array index↗2016-08-16
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Debian
CVE-2016-9424: w3m - An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. w3m d...↗2016
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9424 w3m: Out-of-bounds heap write due to negative array index↗2016-11-29
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