cve-2018-6198
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-01-25 03:00
Modified
2024-08-05 05:54
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00028.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102855Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.debian.org/888097Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/18dcbadf2771cdb0c18509b14e4e73505b242753Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://salsa.debian.org/debian/w3m/commit/18dcbadf2771cdb0c18509b14e4e73505b242753Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00028.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102855Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.debian.org/888097Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/18dcbadf2771cdb0c18509b14e4e73505b242753Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://salsa.debian.org/debian/w3m/commit/18dcbadf2771cdb0c18509b14e4e73505b242753Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2/Third Party Advisory
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