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Debian DSA-251-1 : w3m - missing HTML quoting

medium Nessus Plugin ID 15088

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Hironori Sakamoto, one of the w3m developers, found two security vulnerabilities in w3m and associated programs. The w3m browser does not properly escape HTML tags in frame contents and img alt attributes. A malicious HTML frame or img alt attribute may deceive a user to send their local cookies which are used for configuration. The information is not leaked automatically, though.

Solution

Upgrade the w3m and w3m-ssl packages.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 0.3-2.4.

The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected by these problems.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-251

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 15088

File Name: debian_DSA-251.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:w3m, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:w3m-ssl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 2/14/2003

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/27/2002

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1335, CVE-2002-1348

DSA: 251