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CentOS 5 : w3m (CESA-2010:0565)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 47867

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated w3m packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

The w3m program is a pager (or text file viewer) that can also be used as a text mode web browser.

It was discovered that w3m is affected by the previously published 'null prefix attack', caused by incorrect handling of NULL characters in X.509 certificates. If an attacker is able to get a carefully-crafted certificate signed by a trusted Certificate Authority, the attacker could use the certificate during a man-in-the-middle attack and potentially confuse w3m into accepting it by mistake. (CVE-2010-2074)

All w3m users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected w3m packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?672ae64b

http://www.nessus.org/u?8a94531b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 47867

File Name: centos_RHSA-2010-0565.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/28/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:w3m, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:w3m-img

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/27/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/16/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2074

BID: 40837

RHSA: 2010:0565