w3c-libwww is a general-purpose web library.
Several buffer overflow flaws in w3c-libwww were found. If a client
application that uses w3c-libwww connected to a malicious HTTP server, it
could trigger an out of bounds memory access, causing the client
application to crash (CVE-2005-3183).
This updated version of w3c-libwww also fixes an issue when computing MD5
sums on a 64 bit machine.
Users of w3c-libwww should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
backported patches to correct these issues.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
RedHat | any | x86_64 | w3c-libwww-apps | < 5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2 | w3c-libwww-apps-5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2.x86_64.rpm |
RedHat | any | ia64 | w3c-libwww-devel | < 5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2 | w3c-libwww-devel-5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2.ia64.rpm |
RedHat | any | s390 | w3c-libwww-devel | < 5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2 | w3c-libwww-devel-5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2.s390.rpm |
RedHat | any | ia64 | w3c-libwww-apps | < 5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2 | w3c-libwww-apps-5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2.ia64.rpm |
RedHat | any | i386 | w3c-libwww-devel | < 5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2 | w3c-libwww-devel-5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2.i386.rpm |
RedHat | any | i386 | w3c-libwww | < 5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2 | w3c-libwww-5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2.i386.rpm |
RedHat | any | ppc | w3c-libwww | < 5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2 | w3c-libwww-5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2.ppc.rpm |
RedHat | any | s390x | w3c-libwww | < 5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2 | w3c-libwww-5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2.s390x.rpm |
RedHat | any | s390 | w3c-libwww | < 5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2 | w3c-libwww-5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2.s390.rpm |
RedHat | any | s390x | w3c-libwww-apps | < 5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2 | w3c-libwww-apps-5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2.s390x.rpm |