CVE-2016-9429

8.8 highEPSS 3.8%

High (8.8) in tats w3m. EPSS 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

8.8 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 89% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-119
Published: 2016-12-12
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

tats:w3m

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94407
https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog
https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/29
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08

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