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CVE-2018-6198

Disclosure Date: January 25, 2018
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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.

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General Information

Vendors

  • canonical,
  • tats

Products

  • ubuntu linux 12.04,
  • ubuntu linux 14.04,
  • ubuntu linux 16.04,
  • ubuntu linux 17.10,
  • w3m
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