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Alpine: multiple w3m packages: security update to 0.5.3.20180125-r0
medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 427525
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:- w3m through 0.5.3 is prone to an infinite recursion flaw in HTMLlineproc0 because the feed_table_block_tag
function in table.c does not prevent a negative indent value. (CVE-2018-6196)
- w3m through 0.5.3 is prone to a NULL pointer dereference flaw in formUpdateBuffer in form.c.
(CVE-2018-6197)
- w3m through 0.5.3 does not properly handle temporary files when the ~/.w3m directory is unwritable, which
allows a local attacker to craft a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files. (CVE-2018-6198)
See Also
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-6196
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 427525
Version: Revision 1.4
Type: Local
Published: 5/16/2025
Updated: 7/2/2026
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3
Percentile: 23.18
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Low
Base Score: 3.3
Temporal Score: 2.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-6198
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.7
Temporal Score: 4.2
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/23/2018