CVE-2016-9428
published 2016-12-12CVE-2016-9428: 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…
PriorityP344high8.8CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRNUIRSUCHIHAH
EPSS
3.34%
87.1th percentile
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.
Affected
6 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | w3m | < w3m 0.5.3-30 (bookworm) | w3m 0.5.3-30 (bookworm) |
| tats | w3m | <= 0.5.3-30 | — |
| tats | w3m | >= 0 < 0.5.3-30 | 0.5.3-30 |
| tats | w3m | >= 0 < 0.5.3-30 | 0.5.3-30 |
| tats | w3m | >= 0 < 0.5.3-30 | 0.5.3-30 |
| tats | w3m | >= 0 < 0.5.3-30 | 0.5.3-30 |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.18.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvdv3.08.8HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvdv2.06.8MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
osv8.8HIGH
vendor_debian8.8HIGH
vendor_redhat8.8HIGH
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Ubuntu
w3m vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2017-03-02
CVE-2016-9422 w3m vulnerabilities
Title: w3m vulnerabilities
Summary: Several security issues were fixed in w3m.
A large number of security issues were discovered in the w3m browser. If a
user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could
exploit a variety of issues related to web browser security, including
cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service attacks, and arbitrary code
execution.
Instructions: In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
Red Hat
w3m: Out-of-bounds write in addMultirowsForm()
vendor_redhat·2016-08-19·CVSS 8.8
CVE-2016-9428 [HIGH] CWE-787 w3m: Out-of-bounds write in addMultirowsForm()
w3m: Out-of-bounds write in addMultirowsForm()
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.
Package: w3m (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Will not fix
Package: w3m (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Not affected
Debian
CVE-2016-9428: w3m - An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. Heap-...
vendor_debian·2016·CVSS 8.8
CVE-2016-9428 [HIGH] CVE-2016-9428: w3m - An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. Heap-...
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.
Scope: local
bookworm: resolved (fixed in 0.5.3-30)
bullseye: resolved (fixed in 0.5.3-30)
forky: resolved (fixed in 0.5.3-30)
sid: resolved (fixed in 0.5.3-30)
trixie: resolved (fixed in 0.5.3-30)
GHSA
GHSA-hjmx-gcwh-p66v: An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-17
CVE-2016-9428 [HIGH] CWE-119 GHSA-hjmx-gcwh-p66v: An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0
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.
OSV
CVE-2016-9428: An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0
osv·2016-12-12·CVSS 8.8
CVE-2016-9428 [HIGH] CVE-2016-9428: An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0
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.
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
Bugzilla
w3m: various flaws [fedora-all]
bugzilla·2016-12-05·CVSS 8.8
[HIGH] w3m: various flaws [fedora-all]
w3m: various flaws [fedora-all]
This is an automatically created tracking bug! It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of Fedora.
For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.
For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs
When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s). This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.
Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.
NOTE: this issue affects multiple supported versions of Fedora. While only
one tracking bug has been f
Bugzilla
w3m: various flaws [epel-7]
bugzilla·2016-12-05·CVSS 8.8
[HIGH] w3m: various flaws [epel-7]
w3m: various flaws [epel-7]
This is an automatically created tracking bug! It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of Fedora EPEL.
For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.
For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs
When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s). This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.
Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.
[bug automatically created by: add-tracking-bugs]
Discussion:
Use the following template to for the
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9428 w3m: Out-of-bounds write in addMultirowsForm()
bugzilla·2016-11-29·CVSS 8.8
CVE-2016-9428 [HIGH] CVE-2016-9428 w3m: Out-of-bounds write in addMultirowsForm()
CVE-2016-9428 w3m: Out-of-bounds write in addMultirowsForm()
An out of bounds heap write will occur while parsing malicously crafted input, crashing the application or having other unspecified impact.
Upstream bug:
https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/26
Upstream fix:
https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/4e464819dd360ffd3d58fa2a89216fe413cfcc74
References:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/321
Discussion:
Created w3m tracking bugs for this issue:
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1401423]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1401424]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94407https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLoghttps://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/26https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94407https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLoghttps://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/26https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08
2016-12-12
Published