CVE-2016-9429

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9429
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9429.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-9429
Downstream
Published
2016-12-12T02:59:19.373Z
Modified
2026-04-16T01:48:36.936196188Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/tats/w3m

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/tats/w3m
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
ce6fffae3d2b82eeef1cbec23a6f4849169f1211
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:tats:w3m:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_FIELD",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.5.3-30"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

debian/0.*
debian/0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23-4
debian/0.3-2.4
debian/0.5.1-1
debian/0.5.1-3
debian/0.5.1-4
debian/0.5.1-5
debian/0.5.1-5.1
debian/0.5.2-1
debian/0.5.2-10
debian/0.5.2-2
debian/0.5.2-2.1
debian/0.5.2-3
debian/0.5.2-4
debian/0.5.2-5
debian/0.5.2-6
debian/0.5.2-7
debian/0.5.2-8
debian/0.5.2-9
debian/0.5.3-1
debian/0.5.3-10
debian/0.5.3-11
debian/0.5.3-12
debian/0.5.3-13
debian/0.5.3-14
debian/0.5.3-15
debian/0.5.3-16
debian/0.5.3-17
debian/0.5.3-18
debian/0.5.3-19
debian/0.5.3-2
debian/0.5.3-20
debian/0.5.3-21
debian/0.5.3-22
debian/0.5.3-23
debian/0.5.3-24
debian/0.5.3-25
debian/0.5.3-26
debian/0.5.3-27
debian/0.5.3-28
debian/0.5.3-29
debian/0.5.3-3
debian/0.5.3-30
debian/0.5.3-4
debian/0.5.3-5
debian/0.5.3-6
debian/0.5.3-7
debian/0.5.3-8
debian/0.5.3-9
upstream/0.*
upstream/0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9429.json"