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CVE-2016-9424
Published: Dec 12, 2016
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. w3m doesn't properly validate the value of tag attribute, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap buffer overflow crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.
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References
GLSA-201701-08
vendor-advisory
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https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog
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94407
vdb-entry
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https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/12
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[oss-security] 20161118 Re: CVE request: w3m - multiple vulnerabilities
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