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HistoryApr 05, 2019 - 12:00 a.m.

Security update for w3m (moderate)

2019-04-0500:00:00
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An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

Description:

This update for w3m fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2018-6196: Prevent infinite recursion in HTMLlineproc0 caused by the
    feed_table_block_tag function which did not prevent a negative indent
    value (bsc#1077559)
  • CVE-2018-6197: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in formUpdateBuffer
    (bsc#1077568)
  • CVE-2018-6198: w3m did not properly handle temporary files when the
    ~/.w3m directory is unwritable, which allowed a local attacker to craft
    a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files (bsc#1077572)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or “zypper patch”.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • openSUSE Leap 42.3:

    zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-1142=1

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
openSUSE Leap42.3i586< - openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):.i586.rpm
openSUSE Leap42.3x86_64< - openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):.x86_64.rpm