Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:48:04 +0100
From: Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Subject: GLSA: w3m
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200302-07
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PACKAGE : w3m
SUMMARY : missing HTML quoting
DATE : 2003-02-17 14:47 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
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- From w3m release notes:
"Hironori SAKAMOTO found another security
vulnerability in w3m 0.3.2.x that w3m will miss to escape html tag
in img alt attribute, so malicious frame html may deceive you to
access your local files, cookies and so on."
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-www/w3m upgrade to w3m-0.3.2.2 as follows:
emerge sync
emerge -u w3m
emerge clean
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aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at http://cvs.gentoo.org/~aliz
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