CVE-2016-9425: tats w3m

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2016-9425 is a high (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability in tats w3m. EPSS estimates a 3.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 12-12-2016
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.