CVE-2016-9422
HIGH8.8EPSS 1.0%Published: 12/12/2016Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-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 doesn't 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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/w3mfrom 0, < 0.5.3-30
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |