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.

SeverityHigh

CVSS8.8

Exploit probability—

ProductTats W3m

PublishedDec 12, 2016

First seenDec 12, 2016

How to fix

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
tats w3m	v ≤ 0.5.3-30	—

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