Gentoo: w3m HTML escaping vulnerability
There is a Cross Site scripting vulnerability in w3m.
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200302-07 - --------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 2003-02-17 14:47 UTC
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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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Resolution
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Concerns
Severity
PACKAGE : w3m
SUMMARY : missing HTML quoting
EXPLOIT : remote
