CVE-2016-9630
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.5
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 (global buffer overflow and crash) via a crafted HTML page.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 0.5.3-33 |
| sid | Fixed | 0.5.3-33 |
| forky | Fixed | 0.5.3-33 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 0.5.3-33 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 0.5.3-33 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| tats | w3m | {"endIncluding":"0.5.3-32"} | |
References
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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