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#73 multiple vulnerabilities [CVE-2016-9422], [CVE-2016-9423], etc.

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2018-01-26
2016-11-21
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Recently, multiple security flaws, CVE ID assigned issues and similar
issues, have been fixed in Debian's w3m, though the Debian security
team manages the issues as minor, no DSA (Debian Security Advisory).

  • fix multiple flaws with malformed text
    [CVE-2016-9422], [CVE-2016-9423], [CVE-2016-9424], [CVE-2016-9425],
    [CVE-2016-9426], [CVE-2016-9428], [CVE-2016-9429], [CVE-2016-9430],
    [CVE-2016-9431], [CVE-2016-9432], [CVE-2016-9433], [CVE-2016-9434],
    [CVE-2016-9435], [CVE-2016-9436], [CVE-2016-9437], [CVE-2016-9438],
    [CVE-2016-9439], [CVE-2016-9440], [CVE-2016-9441], [CVE-2016-9443]
  • fix potential heap buffer corruption due to Strgrow [CVE-2016-9442]

cf. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/w3m
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3

The patched snapshot tagged as v0.5.3+git20161120 is available
from:

Discussion

  • Tatsuya Kinoshita

    Also, additional issues are fixed in v0.5.3+git20170102.

     

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