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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-6198: Link Following

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-6198: Link Following

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/25/2018
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/22/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-w3m

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