CVE-2016-9424

An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31

published December 12, 2016

CVSS
—
EPSS
3%
Percentile
87.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.03181 · 87.9th percentile
Published
2016-12-12T02:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 DEC 02:00Z
    An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31
    cvelistv5