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High
CVE-2016-9429
An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork...
Vulnerability Description
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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
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Credits & Attribution
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Affected Vendor
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View all reports →Affected Software
w3m
Vulnerable Versions:
0
Timeline
Official Publish:
December 12th, 2016
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 20th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.