CVE-2016-9628
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5
Description
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 (segmentation fault and crash) via a crafted HTML page.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9628
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9628.html
Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/39
Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 0.5.3-33 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 0.5.3-33 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 0.5.3-33 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 0.5.3-33 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 0.5.3-33 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| tats | w3m | {"endIncluding":"0.5.3-32"} | |
References
CWEs
CWE-476
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.