Debian DLA-2195-1 : w3m security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 136204

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Two issues have been found in w3m, WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support.

One issue is related to a stack overflow, the other one is a fix for a NULL pointer dereference.

Brief introduction

CVE-2018-6196

Description

CVE-2018-6197

Description

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 0.5.3-19+deb8u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your w3m packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected w3m, and w3m-img packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 136204

File Name: debian_DLA-2195.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 5/1/2020

Updated: 3/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-6197

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:w3m, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:w3m-img, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/30/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/25/2018

Reference Information

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

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