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CVE-2016-9627

An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-33.

Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
6.5
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
2.6%
percentile 85%
Public exploits
0
none known

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 (heap buffer overflow and crash) via a crafted HTML page.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

2.56% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.06.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD2.04.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

  • github.com /tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • github.com /tats/w3m/issues/38 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • openwall.com /lists/oss-security/2016/11/24/1 · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred

Sources

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