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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : w3m (SUSE-SU-2019:0776-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 123450
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.Description
This update for w3m fixes several issues.These security issues were fixed :
CVE-2018-6196: Prevent infinite recursion in HTMLlineproc0 caused by the feed_table_block_tag function which did not prevent a negative indent value (bsc#1077559)
CVE-2018-6197: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in formUpdateBuffer (bsc#1077568)
CVE-2018-6198: w3m did not properly handle temporary files when the ~/.w3m directory is unwritable, which allowed a local attacker to craft a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files (bsc#1077572)
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-776=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-776=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP4-2019-776=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2019-776=1
See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077559
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077568
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077572
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6196/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6197/
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 123450
File Name: suse_SU-2019-0776-1.nasl
Version: 1.4
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 3/28/2019
Updated: 6/7/2024
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Low
Base Score: 3.3
Temporal Score: 2.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-6198
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.7
Temporal Score: 4.2
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:w3m, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:w3m-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:w3m-debuginfo
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 3/27/2019
Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/25/2018