CVE-2016-9424

Publication date 11 December 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
w3m 17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.5.3-26ubuntu0.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.5.3-15ubuntu0.1
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 0.5.3-5ubuntu1.2

Patch details

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Package Patch details
w3m

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

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

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