Updated w3m packages fix security vulnerability

2018-07-1200:47:08

Gentoo Foundation

advisories.mageia.org

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.007 Low

EPSS

Percentile

80.7%

JSON

It was discovered that w3m incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (CVE-2018-6196, CVE-2018-6197). It was discovered that w3m incorrectly handled temporary files. An attacker could possibly use this to overwrite arbitrary files (CVE-2018-6198).

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Mageia5noarchw3m< 0.5.3-13.git20180520.0w3m-0.5.3-13.git20180520.0.mga5
Mageia6noarchw3m< 0.5.3-13.git20180520.0w3m-0.5.3-13.git20180520.0.mga6