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Fedora 23 Security Update: w3m Denial of Service Issue Resolved

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Calendar Grey April 24, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This patch resolves a vulnerability in w3m for Fedora 23 related to malicious HTML documents, enhancing overall protection.
Resolves:rh#1324349 - denial of service with crafted html files

Summary

The w3m program is a pager (or text file viewer) that can also be used

as a text-mode Web browser. W3m features include the following: when

reading an HTML document, you can follow links and view images using

an external image viewer; its internet message mode determines the

type of document from the header; if the Content-Type field of the

document is text/html, the document is displayed as an HTML document;

you can change a URL description like ' in plain

text into a link to that URL.

If you want to display the inline images on w3m, you need to install

w3m-img package as well.

Update Information:

Resolves:rh#1324349 - denial of service with crafted html files

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security update Fedora w3m

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1324349 - w3m: denial of service with crafted html files [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324349

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update w3m' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: w3m
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 0.5.3
Release: 24.fc23
URL:
Summary: A pager with Web browsing abilities

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security update Fedora w3m

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