CVE-2016-9424

high

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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08

https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/12

https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94407

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-12-12

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High