CVE-2016-9623 — NULL Pointer Dereference in W3M

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer DereferenceCWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound9 documents9 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
1.2%
top 21.17%
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 0.5.3-33. w3m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a crafted HTML page.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debiantats/w3m< 0.5.3-33+3
▶NVDtats/w3m0.5.3-32

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-2vf7-97fr-5gfj: An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2016-9623: An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0↗2016-12-12
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OSV
CVE-2016-9623: An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0↗2016-12-12
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Kernel
net: ping: check minimum size on ICMP header length↗2016-12-05
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
w3m vulnerabilities↗2017-03-02
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Red Hat
w3m: Integer overflow resulting in segmentation fault↗2016-11-06
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Debian
CVE-2016-9623: w3m - An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-33. w3m a...↗2016
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9623 w3m: Integer overflow resulting in segmentation fault↗2016-11-29
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