Alpine: multiple w3m packages: security update to 0.5.3-r2 (deprecated)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 400734

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://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=9ad9db36d1eea73fa311b03717bc6c249301b591

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=d1ee0e35c7f16cff46b6d64b4667d9cc38842051

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 400734

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Published: 8/16/2023

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/3/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/23/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-6196, CVE-2018-6197, CVE-2018-6198

BID: 102846, 102855