Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m Fork
CVE-2016-9422 · MEDIUM Severity
AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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.
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