-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : w3m SUMMARY : w3m buffer overflow DATE : 2001-11-08 16:52:00 ID : CLA-2001:434 RELEVANT RELEASES : 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 7.0 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION w3m is a text based pager with WWW capability. Ogasawara Satoshi and Kobayashi Shigehiro discovered a vulnerability[1] in a MIME header parsing routine. A malicious web server administrator could execute arbitrary code in the client machine by sending malformed MIME headers inside the server HTTP responses. SOLUTION All w3m users should upgrade. REFERENCES: 1. http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2895 DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINKS TO THE UPDATED PACKAGES ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.0/SRPMS/w3m-0.2.1-4U50_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.0/i386/w3m-0.2.1-4U50_1cl.src.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.1/SRPMS/w3m-0.2.1-4U51_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.1/i386/w3m-0.2.1-4U51_1cl.src.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/SRPMS/w3m-0.2.1-4U60_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/RPMS/w3m-0.2.1-4U60_1cl.src.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/SRPMS/w3m-0.2.1-4U70_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/w3m-0.2.1-4U70_1cl.src.rpm ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS Users of Conectiva Linux version 6.0 or higher may use apt to perform upgrades of RPM packages: - add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list if it is not there yet (you may also use linuxconf to do this): rpm [cncbr] ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br 6.0/conectiva updates (replace 6.0 with the correct version number if you are not running CL6.0) - run: apt-get update - after that, execute: apt-get upgrade Detailed instructions reagarding the use of apt and upgrade examples can be found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/#apt?idioma=en - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- All packages are signed with Conectiva's GPG key. The key and instructions on how to import it can be found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/seguranca/chave/?idioma=en Instructions on how to check the signatures of the RPM packages can be found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/seguranca/politica/?idioma=en - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- All our advisories and generic update instructions can be viewed at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?idioma=en - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- subscribe: conectiva-updates-subscribeat_private unsubscribe: conectiva-updates-unsubscribeat_private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE76tSV42jd0JmAcZARAp+9AKCZPe5dVe4gG3EQs3wayCOZOXglwACfUNqc P3J+nGO3e/zbYl/uBd3sqGY= =Tw2Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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