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CVE-2016-9632

Published: 11 December 2016

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

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
w3m
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise
Released (0.5.3-5ubuntu1.2)
trusty
Released (0.5.3-15ubuntu0.1)
upstream
Released (0.5.3-33)
xenial
Released (0.5.3-26ubuntu0.1)
yakkety Ignored
(end of life)
zesty Not vulnerable
(0.5.3-33)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/716bc126638393c733399d11d3228edb82877faa
upstream: https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/88110c2658ad9badd292430c75ebb0444c3312eb

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H