CVE-2016-9422

Description

An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. The feed_table_tag function in w3m doesnt properly validate the value of table span, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack and/or heap buffer overflow) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.

Risk Information

Base Score

8.8

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

1.043

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support (USN-3214-1) w3m_0.5.3-5ubuntu1.2_i386.deb	Linux
WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support (USN-3214-1) w3m_0.5.3-5ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb	Linux
SUSE-SU-2016:3046-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 ) w3m-0.5.3.git20161120-4.1.x86_64.rpm	Linux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234