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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-9422: w3m: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-9422: w3m: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/11/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-w3m

References

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