CVE-2018-6198

Published: Jan 25, 2018

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://bugs.debian.org/888097

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USN-3555-2

vendor-advisory

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USN-3555-1

vendor-advisory

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https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/18dcbadf2771cdb0c18509b14e4e73505b242753

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/w3m/commit/18dcbadf2771cdb0c18509b14e4e73505b242753

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102855

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

openSUSE-SU-2019:1142

vendor-advisory

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CVE-2018-6198

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