Upstream information

CVE-2016-9429 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.8
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 8.8
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 1011278 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 1011293 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 1012020 [RESOLVED / DUPLICATE]

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Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5 w3m Already fixed
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1 w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 w3m Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3 w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 12 SP2-CLIENT w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1-LTSS w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2-LTSS w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 w3m Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 w3m Already fixed
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 w3m Already fixed
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 w3m Already fixed
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 w3m Already fixed
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 w3m Already fixed
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 w3m Already fixed


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Nov 18 10:18:19 2016
CVE page last modified: Thu Nov 14 17:11:02 2024