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CVE-2016-9442

Published: 11 December 2016

An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. w3m allows remote attackers to cause memory corruption in certain conditions via a crafted HTML page.

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
w3m
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise
Released (0.5.3-5ubuntu1.2)
trusty
Released (0.5.3-15ubuntu0.1)
upstream
Released (0.5.3-30)
xenial
Released (0.5.3-26ubuntu0.1)
yakkety Ignored
(end of life)
zesty Not vulnerable
(0.5.3-32)
Patches:
debian: https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/d43527cfa0dbb3ccefec4a6f7b32c1434739aa29

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H