Debian Security Advisory
DSA-081-1 w3m -- Buffer Overflow
- Date Reported:
- 18 Oct 2001
- Affected Packages:
- w3m, w3m-ssl
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 2895.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2001-0700. - More information:
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In SNS Advisory No. 32 a buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in the routine which parses MIME headers that are returned from web servers. A malicious web server administrator could exploit this and let the client web browser execute arbitrary code.
w3m handles MIME headers included in the request/response message of HTTP communication like any other web browser. A buffer overflow will occur when w3m receives a MIME encoded header with base64 format.
This problem has been fixed by the maintainer in version 0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23-4 of w3m and w3m-ssl (for the SSL-enabled version), both for Debian GNU/Linux 2.2.
We recommend that you upgrade your w3m packages immediately.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/w3m_0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23-4.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/w3m_0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/w3m_0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23-4.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/w3m-ssl_0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23-4.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/w3m-ssl_0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23-4.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/w3m_0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23.orig.tar.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/w3m_0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23-4_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/w3m-ssl_0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23-4_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/w3m-ssl_0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23-4_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/w3m_0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23-4_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/w3m-ssl_0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23-4_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/w3m-ssl_0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23-4_arm.deb
- Intel ia32:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/w3m_0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23-4_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/w3m-ssl_0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23-4_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/w3m-ssl_0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23-4_i386.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/w3m_0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23-4_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/w3m-ssl_0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23-4_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/w3m-ssl_0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23-4_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the revised advisory.