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CVE-2016-9429

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Date: December 11, 2016

An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. Buffer overflow in the formUpdateBuffer function in w3m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.

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Related Resources (9)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9429
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-9429
https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94407
https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/29
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9429
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-9429

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Buffer Errors

CWE-119

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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