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Ubuntu 22.10: 5796-1 Critical: w3m Crash Risk From Malicious Websites

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Calendar Grey January 9, 2023
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Announcement USN-5796-1 deals with a vulnerability in w3m that could potentially allow remote code execution. A solution has been implemented.
w3m could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.

Summary

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security advisory denial of service critical remote code execution ubuntu w3m

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 22.10: w3m 0.5.3+git20220429-1ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: w3m 0.5.3+git20210102-6ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: w3m 0.5.3-37ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: w3m 0.5.3-36ubuntu0.1 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5796-1

CVE-2022-38223

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January 09, 2023

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security advisory denial of service critical remote code execution ubuntu w3m

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/w3m/0.5.3+git20220429-1ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/w3m/0.5.3+git20210102-6ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/w3m/0.5.3-37ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/w3m/0.5.3-36ubuntu0.1

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