Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m Fork

CVE-2016-9424 · 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. 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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