Debian: w3m mutliple vulnerabilities
Summary
Hironori Sakamoto, one of the w3m developers, found two security
vulnerabilities in w3m and associated programs. The w3m browser does
not properly escape HTML tags in frame contents and img alt
attributes. A malicious HTML frame or img alt attribute may deceive a
user to send his local cookies which are used for configuration. The
information is not leaked automatically, though.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.3-2.4.
The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected by these
problems.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.3.2.2-1 and later.
We recommend that you upgrade your w3m and w3m-ssl packages.
Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 622 20b45c25d667d7070eb577bb3a79dbcc
Size/MD5 checksum: 30286 fea2017c4a531d1ff8bef12900beb0f4
Size/MD5 checksum: 1061650 837dc9c4b64c85e720eed60a54e409ef
Size/MD5 checksum: 641 7de04cb1692172671a9c6c1361c228d7
Size/MD5 checksum: 29622 446fb46c6b1b1bea398beb7d4568dfb5
Size/MD5 checksum: 1061650 837dc9c4b64c85e720eed60a54e409ef
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 716678 a4be8bbaf22be37109c24fc926ac90d2
Size/MD5 checksum: 46038 832edd93d5bce7f975089a4280c783c9
Size/MD5 checksum: 522114 4e63b78eea41987eb3c9d4e56c37f2bb
ARM architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 576102 7955eee2d641927783e4d980acca3e2b
Size/MD5 checksum: 44918 cdc767960efdb93bf98f16b2d0dbba81
Size/MD5 checksum: 416534 bc19d77a1de0eb19ae0a890331c757ce
Intel IA-32 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 536546 403d4d66e4a35b72fde1ca2648477eee
Size/MD5 checksum: 44696 2dea9365153597340338fa6cb3d26a73
Size/MD5 checksum: 378256 f678a241934a5cd884dc08a19602670a
HP Precision architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 679602 4e45ab940066fd4b31eafda7324cb882
Size/MD5 checksum: 45474 08805d242612377e90de7e0e6658a1eb
Size/MD5 checksum: 488050 abf5cba42d0f2209a9614bcbdb47d0df
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 509352 42729e7a7cf55b0f635ec7b82d74e4d3
Size/MD5 checksum: 44404 ab8a616265b6061dd12d81e26eeb2c86
Size/MD5 checksum: 353590 70b91ebb6faab0579d4d5421b4527d6d
Big endian MIPS architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 658884 a6bb69fdffed8f078ec96f07a226c0a9
Size/MD5 checksum: 45254 21977f7a10c606f05eea735f66c21f7c
Size/MD5 checksum: 469378 686ee1efae499861354ffb4a5958018c
Little endian MIPS architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 657326 334db3009539a5923e5aea348c8b5e11
Size/MD5 checksum: 45252 0e2c3363c84b9f4113308179b889dd97
Size/MD5 checksum: 467646 dedfb98ab9aef606ca73a925f9b694ec
PowerPC architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 598206 b3634a26e9e30b3576d8b22b57f3bfc6
Size/MD5 checksum: 44944 1b5252467644b0cc3c86e02665443e20
Size/MD5 checksum: 416488 eea92fb56474841f98dca6a0d9b2c346
IBM S/390 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 575340 8145d936ae5cfa717dbbb11c47fc9c2c
Size/MD5 checksum: 45476 96288fb9f339dbec945e80a27588805c
Size/MD5 checksum: 407616 4e366109f0be690c11beafe3fe1265fa
Sun Sparc architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 609858 f72ba2a2dbdad04abe4518287d9fcf9f
Size/MD5 checksum: 45650 13c85543bd43383e30acc038b38c834f
Size/MD5 checksum: 412114 44d471fc7b738b4b21d3303654869d99
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
For apt-get: deb Debian -- Security Information stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show
