openSUSE Leap 42.3 openSUSE-SU-2019:1142-1 moderate: W3M Local Risk
opensuse
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.
Topics Covered
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
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1142-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 42.3
Topics Covered
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