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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: 3214-1 Significant: w3m Security Vulnerabilities Detected

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Calendar Grey March 2, 2017
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Various vulnerabilities were addressed in the w3m web browser that impact Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 LTS versions.
Several security issues were fixed in w3m.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in w3m.

Software Description:

- w3m: WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support

Details:

A large number of security issues were discovered in the w3m browser. If a

user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could

exploit a variety of issues related to web browser security, including

cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service attacks, and arbitrary code

execution.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate remote exploit Ubuntu w3m

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  w3m                             0.5.3-15ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  w3m                             0.5.3-5ubuntu1.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3214-1

CVE-2016-9422, CVE-2016-9423, CVE-2016-9424, CVE-2016-9425,

CVE-2016-9426, CVE-2016-9428, CVE-2016-9429, CVE-2016-9430,

CVE-2016-9431, CVE-2016-9432, CVE-2016-9433, CVE-2016-9434,

CVE-2016-9435, CVE-2016-9436, CVE-2016-9437, CVE-2016-9438,

CVE-2016-9439, CVE-2016-9440, CVE-2016-9441, CVE-2016-9442,

CVE-2016-9443, CVE-2016-9622, CVE-2016-9623, CVE-2016-9624,

CVE-2016-9625, CVE-2016-9626, CVE-2016-9627, CVE-2016-9628,

CVE-2016-9629, CVE-2016-9630, CVE-2016-9631, CVE-2016-9632,

CVE-2016-9633

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March 02, 2017

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate remote exploit Ubuntu w3m

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/w3m/0.5.3-15ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/w3m/0.5.3-5ubuntu1.2

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