CVE-2016-9434

MEDIUM

Tats W3m < 0.5.3-30 - NULL Pointer Dereference

Title source: rule

Description

An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. w3m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a crafted HTML page.

References (5)

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3

[Issue Tracking, Patch] https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog

View Patch ZIP pw:eip

[Issue Tracking, Patch] https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/15

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94407

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0071

EPSS Percentile 72.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-476

Status published

Affected Products (2)

tats/w3m < 0.5.3-30

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Dec 12, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026