USN-3214-1: w3m vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3214-1

2nd March, 2017

w3m vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS



• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

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