Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m Fork Allows Remote Code Execution

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m Fork Allows Remote Code Execution

CVE-2016-9423 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. Heap-based buffer overflow in w3m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.

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