Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-9642

Title: Webkit Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-9642.

CWE Category CWE-125

Published Date Feb 03, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.19%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-9642: JavaScriptCore in WebKit allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read) via a crafted Javascript file.

Impacted Vendors

webkit 1

Reference Links

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/26/4 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94554 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038137 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-15 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/26/4 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94554 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038137 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-15

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.5

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns