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Fedora 27 : w3m (2018-0ad6e73ac0)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 106698

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Rebase to latest upstream gitrev 20180125 and Security fix for CVE-2018-6196, CVE-2018-6197, CVE-2018-6198

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected w3m package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-0ad6e73ac0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 106698

File Name: fedora_2018-0ad6e73ac0.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/9/2018

Updated: 10/30/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:w3m

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/8/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/25/2018

Reference Information

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