Executive Summary



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Summary
Title w3m vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3214-1 First vendor Publication 2017-03-02
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2017-03-02
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

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 versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
w3m 0.5.3-15ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
w3m 0.5.3-5ubuntu1.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3214-1
CVE-2016-9422, CVE-2016-9423, CVE-2016-9424, CVE-2016-9425,
CVE-2016-9426, CVE-2016-9428, CVE-2016-9429, CVE-2016-9430,
CVE-2016-9431, CVE-2016-9432, CVE-2016-9433, CVE-2016-9434,
CVE-2016-9435, CVE-2016-9436, CVE-2016-9437, CVE-2016-9438,
CVE-2016-9439, CVE-2016-9440, CVE-2016-9441, CVE-2016-9442,
CVE-2016-9443, CVE-2016-9622, CVE-2016-9623, CVE-2016-9624,
CVE-2016-9625, CVE-2016-9626, CVE-2016-9627, CVE-2016-9628,
CVE-2016-9629, CVE-2016-9630, CVE-2016-9631, CVE-2016-9632,
CVE-2016-9633

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/w3m/0.5.3-15ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/w3m/0.5.3-5ubuntu1.2

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3214-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
48 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
36 % CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
6 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
3 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
3 % CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE/SANS Top 25)
3 % 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
2017-03-04 13:26:24
  • Multiple Updates
2017-03-02 17:22:54
  • First insertion