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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6198

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 a...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 w3m

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.5.3-36"}]}]

Debian:13 w3m

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.5.3-36"}]}]

Debian:14 w3m

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.5.3-36"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org