6.5

CVE-2016-9624: tats w3m NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 6.5v3.0MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2016-9624DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9624
Published 12-12-2016Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2016-9624 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in tats w3m. EPSS estimates a 1.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
26/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.77%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 5 · Related 4
MGASA-2018-0024OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10235-1SUSE-SU-2016:3046-1SUSE-SU-2016:3053-1USN-3214-1

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 0.5.3-33. w3m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a crafted HTML page.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.77%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

78%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.77% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.77%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • w3m< 0.5.3-33
Tats1 product
  • w3m≤ 0.5.3-32
Ubuntu1 product
  • w3m< 0.5.3-15ubuntu0.1 | < 0.5.3-26ubuntu0.1

3 vendors · 3 products

References

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