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HistoryJul 27, 2010 - 3:06 p.m.

w3m security update

2010-07-2715:06:39
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6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

74.0%

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2010:0565

The w3m program is a pager (or text file viewer) that can also be used as a
text mode web browser.

It was discovered that w3m is affected by the previously published “null
prefix attack”, caused by incorrect handling of NULL characters in X.509
certificates. If an attacker is able to get a carefully-crafted certificate
signed by a trusted Certificate Authority, the attacker could use the
certificate during a man-in-the-middle attack and potentially confuse w3m
into accepting it by mistake. (CVE-2010-2074)

All w3m users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a
backported patch to correct this issue.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2010-July/078999.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2010-July/079000.html

Affected packages:
w3m
w3m-img

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0565

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

74.0%