UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9424

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9424
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9424.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9424
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Published
2016-12-11T00:00:00Z
Modified
2016-12-11T00:00:00Z
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. 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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / w3m

Package

Name
w3m
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/w3m@0.5.3-15ubuntu0.1?arch=src?distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.5.3-15ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

0.*

0.5.3-11
0.5.3-12
0.5.3-13
0.5.3-15

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "ubuntu_priority": "medium",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "w3m": "0.5.3-15ubuntu0.1",
            "w3m-img-dbgsym": "0.5.3-15ubuntu0.1",
            "w3m-img": "0.5.3-15ubuntu0.1",
            "w3m-dbgsym": "0.5.3-15ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / w3m

Package

Name
w3m
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/w3m@0.5.3-26ubuntu0.1?arch=src?distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.5.3-26ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

0.*

0.5.3-24
0.5.3-25
0.5.3-26
0.5.3-26build1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "ubuntu_priority": "medium",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "w3m": "0.5.3-26ubuntu0.1",
            "w3m-img-dbgsym": "0.5.3-26ubuntu0.1",
            "w3m-img": "0.5.3-26ubuntu0.1",
            "w3m-dbgsym": "0.5.3-26ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ]
}