CVE-2016-9428 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94407 https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/26 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8