Out-of-Bounds Affecting tats/w3m package, versions [,0.5.3-33)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TATSW3M-2364309
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Dec 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-9630  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tats/w3m to version 0.5.3-33 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-33. w3m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (global buffer overflow and crash) via a crafted HTML page.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1