Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title w3m: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201701-08 First vendor Publication 2017-01-01
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2017-01-01
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in w3m, the worst of which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Background

w3m is a text based WWW browser.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in w3m. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition via a maliciously crafted HTML file.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All w3m users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/w3m-0.5.3-r9"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2016-9422 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9422
[ 2 ] CVE-2016-9423 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9423
[ 3 ] CVE-2016-9424 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9424
[ 4 ] CVE-2016-9425 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9425
[ 5 ] CVE-2016-9426 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9426
[ 6 ] CVE-2016-9428 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9428
[ 7 ] CVE-2016-9429 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9429
[ 8 ] CVE-2016-9430 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9430
[ 9 ] CVE-2016-9431 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9431
[ 10 ] CVE-2016-9432 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9432
[ 11 ] CVE-2016-9433 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9433
[ 12 ] CVE-2016-9434 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9434
[ 13 ] CVE-2016-9435 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9435
[ 14 ] CVE-2016-9436 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9436
[ 15 ] CVE-2016-9437 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9437
[ 16 ] CVE-2016-9438 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9438
[ 17 ] CVE-2016-9439 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9439
[ 18 ] CVE-2016-9440 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9440
[ 19 ] CVE-2016-9441 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9441
[ 20 ] CVE-2016-9442 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9442
[ 21 ] CVE-2016-9443 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9443

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201701-08.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
52 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
29 % CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
10 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
5 % CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE/SANS Top 25)
5 % CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 5
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-03-22 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-783e8fa63e.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-2e6b693937.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-03 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3214-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-01-03 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_eafa3aec211b4dd49b8aa664a3f0917a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-01-03 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201701-08.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-12-14 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-1457.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-12-08 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-3046-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-12-08 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-3053-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-01-20 21:24:11
  • Multiple Updates
2017-01-04 13:23:10
  • Multiple Updates
2017-01-01 21:23:24
  • First insertion