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CVE-2016-9442
An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. w3m allows remote attackers to cause memory corruption in…
Medium6.5EPSS 1.8%
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- mitre
Description
An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. w3m allows remote attackers to cause memory corruption in certain conditions via a crafted HTML page.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 21% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (5)
- GLSA-201701-08 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/d43527cfa0dbb3ccefec4a6f7b32c1434739aa29 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 94407 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20161118 Re: CVE request: w3m - multiple vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .