CVE-2016-9627 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01132.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Tats	W3m

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:tats:w3m:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Ubuntu USN	USN-3214-1	w3m vulnerabilities

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/24/1
https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog
https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/38
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9627
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9627

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2016-12-12T02:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:59:03.164Z

Reserved: 2016-11-23T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-9627

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-12-12T02:59:43.080

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-9627

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-11-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-9627 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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