CVE-2016-9424

Publication date

2016-12-12 02:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. w3m doesnt 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.