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Debian DSA-250-1 : w3mmee-ssl - missing HTML quoting

medium Nessus Plugin ID 15087

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Hironori Sakamoto, one of the w3m developers, found two security vulnerabilities in w3m and associated programs. The w3m browser does not properly escape HTML tags in frame contents and img alt attributes. A malicious HTML frame or img alt attribute may deceive a user to send their local cookies which are used for configuration. The information is not leaked automatically, though.

Solution

Upgrade the w3mmee-ssl packages.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 0.3.p23.3-1.5. Please note that the update also contains an important patch to make the program work on the powerpc platform again.

The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected by these problems.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-250

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 15087

File Name: debian_DSA-250.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:w3mmee-ssl

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 2/12/2003

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/27/2002

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1335, CVE-2002-1348

DSA: 250