The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201701-08 (w3m: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in w3m. Please review the       CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of       the process or cause a Denial of Service condition via a maliciously       crafted HTML file.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Multiple remote code execution and denial of service conditions present.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3214-1 advisory.

    A large number of security issues were discovered in the w3m browser. If a user were tricked into viewing     a malicious website, a remote attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to web browser security,     including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service attacks, and arbitrary code execution.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Security fix for CVE-2016-9422, CVE-2016-9423, CVE-2016-9424, CVE-2016-9425, CVE-2016-9428, CVE-2016-9426, CVE-2016-9429, CVE-2016-9430, CVE-2016-9431, CVE-2016-9432, CVE-2016-9433, CVE-2016-9434, CVE-2016-9435, CVE-2016-9436, CVE-2016-9437, CVE-2016-9438, CVE-2016-9439, CVE-2016-9440, CVE-2016-9441, CVE-2016-9442, CVE-2016-9443, CVE-2016-9622, CVE-2016-9623, CVE-2016-9624, CVE-2016-9625, CVE-2016-9626, CVE-2016-9627, CVE-2016-9628, CVE-2016-9629, CVE-2016-9631, CVE-2016-9630, CVE-2016-9632, CVE-2016-9633

And new upstream 20170102 as well

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.

Security fix for CVE-2016-9422, CVE-2016-9423, CVE-2016-9424, CVE-2016-9425, CVE-2016-9428, CVE-2016-9426, CVE-2016-9429, CVE-2016-9430, CVE-2016-9431, CVE-2016-9432, CVE-2016-9433, CVE-2016-9434, CVE-2016-9435, CVE-2016-9436, CVE-2016-9437, CVE-2016-9438, CVE-2016-9439, CVE-2016-9440, CVE-2016-9441, CVE-2016-9442, CVE-2016-9443, CVE-2016-9622, CVE-2016-9623, CVE-2016-9624, CVE-2016-9625, CVE-2016-9626, CVE-2016-9627, CVE-2016-9628, CVE-2016-9629, CVE-2016-9631, CVE-2016-9630, CVE-2016-9632, CVE-2016-9633

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Update to latest upstream gitrev 20170102

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
96239	GLSA-201701-08 : w3m: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	1/3/2017	1/6/2026	high
96223	FreeBSD : w3m -- multiple vulnerabilities (eafa3aec-211b-4dd4-9b8a-a664a3f0917a)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	1/3/2017	1/7/2026	high
97522	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : w3m vulnerabilities (USN-3214-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	3/3/2017	8/27/2024	high
97700	Fedora 25 : w3m (2017-2e6b693937)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	3/14/2017	12/30/2025	high
97866	Fedora 24 : w3m (2017-783e8fa63e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	3/22/2017	12/29/2025	high

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