In Fedora, for the w3m-0.5.2 release, a security issue has been reported. Fedora is already using the attached patch as a fix. Submitting the same patch for upstream inclusion. This patch fixes http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2074
security fix
Fixed in Debian w3m 0.5.2-2+lenny1 and 0.5.2-5.
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/w3m.git
Fixed in w3m 0.5.3