CVE-2016-9627

medium

Description

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.

References

https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/38

https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-10429

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/24/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-12-12

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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