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CVE-2016-9428 (GCVE-0-2016-9428)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-12-12 02:00 – Updated: 2024-10-15 19:01
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. Heap-based buffer overflow in the addMultirowsForm function in w3m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-15 17:16 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
References
Date Public
2016-11-03 00:00
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