USN-3555-2: w3m vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3555-2

1st February, 2018

w3m vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in w3m.

Software description

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

Details

USN-3555-2 fixed vulnerabilities in w3m. This update
provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.
Original advisory details:

It was discovered that w3m incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service.
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It was discovered that w3m incorrectly handled temporary files.
An attacker could possibly use this to overwrite arbitrary files.
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In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

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CVE-2018-6198