openSUSE Security Update: Security update for w3m
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Announcement ID:    openSUSE-SU-2019:1142-1
Rating:             moderate
References:         #1077559 #1077568 #1077572 
Cross-References:   CVE-2018-6196 CVE-2018-6197 CVE-2018-6198
                   
Affected Products:
                    openSUSE Leap 42.3
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   An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

Description:

   This update for w3m fixes the following issues:

   Security issues fixed:

   - CVE-2018-6196: Prevent infinite recursion in HTMLlineproc0 caused by the
     feed_table_block_tag function which did not prevent a negative indent
     value (bsc#1077559)
   - CVE-2018-6197: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in formUpdateBuffer
     (bsc#1077568)
   - CVE-2018-6198: w3m did not properly handle temporary files when the
     ~/.w3m directory is unwritable, which allowed a local attacker to craft
     a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files (bsc#1077572)

   This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.


Patch Instructions:

   To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
   like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

   Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

   - openSUSE Leap 42.3:

      zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-1142=1



Package List:

   - openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

      w3m-0.5.3.git20161120-164.3.1
      w3m-debuginfo-0.5.3.git20161120-164.3.1
      w3m-debugsource-0.5.3.git20161120-164.3.1
      w3m-inline-image-0.5.3.git20161120-164.3.1
      w3m-inline-image-debuginfo-0.5.3.git20161120-164.3.1


References:

   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6196.html
   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6197.html
   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6198.html
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/1077559
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/1077568
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/1077572

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openSUSE: 2019:1142-1: moderate: w3m

April 4, 2019
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for w3m fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-6196: Prevent infinite recursion in HTMLlineproc0 caused by the feed_table_block_tag function which did not prevent a negative indent value (bsc#1077559) - CVE-2018-6197: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in formUpdateBuffer (bsc#1077568) - CVE-2018-6198: w3m did not properly handle temporary files when the ~/.w3m directory is unwritable, which allowed a local attacker to craft a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files (bsc#1077572) This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

 

Patch

Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE Leap 42.3: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-1142=1


Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64): w3m-0.5.3.git20161120-164.3.1 w3m-debuginfo-0.5.3.git20161120-164.3.1 w3m-debugsource-0.5.3.git20161120-164.3.1 w3m-inline-image-0.5.3.git20161120-164.3.1 w3m-inline-image-debuginfo-0.5.3.git20161120-164.3.1


References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6196.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6197.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6198.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/1077559 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1077568 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1077572--


Severity
Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1142-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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