CVE-2016-9627

moderate-risk
Published 2016-12-12

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 (heap buffer overflow and crash) via a crafted HTML page.

Do I need to act?

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1.1% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
6
CVSS 6.5/10 Medium
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

W3M

Affected Vendors

Tats

References (6)

Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/24/1
Issue Tracking https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog
Issue Tracking https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/38
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/24/1
Issue Tracking https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog
Issue Tracking https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/38
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moderate-risk
Severity 24/34 · High
Exploitability 3/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal