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CVE-2006-6772

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-12-27 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-134

Description

Format string vulnerability in the inputAnswer function in file.c in w3m before 0.5.2, when run with the dump or backend option, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the Common Name (CN) field of an SSL certificate associated with an https URL.

Affected products

• W3M: 0.5.1

References

• http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2415
• http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2416
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-December/051457.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23492
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23588
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23717
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23773
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23792
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-06.xml
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017440
• http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1612792&group_id=39518&atid=425439
• http://w3m.cvs.sourceforge.net/%2Acheckout%2A/w3m/w3m/NEWS?revision=1.79

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