CVE-2018-6198

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.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1/

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

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

https://bugs.debian.org/888097

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102855

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00028.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3