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Fedora 24: FEDORA-2016-76d9809fd4 Moderate W3m Security Fix

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Calendar Grey January 25, 2017
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Fedora has released an update for w3m to address security vulnerabilities from recent git changes, vital for system integrity and reliable operation across Fedora installations
Rebase to latest upstream gitrev 20161120

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:

Rebase to latest upstream gitrev 20161120

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Fedora security fix update information w3m

Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-76d9809fd4 2017-01-24 19:30:33.804847
Name : w3m Product : Fedora 24 Version : 0.5.3 Release : 27.git20161120.fc24 URL : Summary : A pager with Web browsing abilities Description : 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 Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade w3m' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

Name: w3m
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 0.5.3
Release: 27.git20161120.fc24
URL:
Summary: A pager with Web browsing abilities

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Fedora security fix update information w3m

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