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CVE-2016-9437

An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. w3m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) and possibly memory corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Published

2016-12-12T02:59:27.517

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 6.5 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-119

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	tats	w3m	≤ 0.5.3-30	Yes

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94407 ([email protected])
https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog Issue Tracking, Patch ([email protected])
https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/17 Issue Tracking, Patch ([email protected])
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08 ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94407 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog Issue Tracking, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/17 Issue Tracking, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)