Bug 1539127 (CVE-2018-6198) - CVE-2018-6198 w3m: insecure temporary files creation when ~/.w3m is unwritable
Summary: CVE-2018-6198 w3m: insecure temporary files creation when ~/.w3m is unwritable
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2018-6198
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1539128 1539129 1539130
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-01-26 18:16 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:31 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: w3m 0.5.3+git20180125
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Last Closed: 2018-06-24 08:48:44 UTC
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-01-26 18:16:23 UTC 
A flaw was found in w3m 0.5.3-34. When ~/.w3m is unwritable, w3m uses /tmp in an insecure fashion, which allows a local attacker to craft a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/18dcbadf2771cdb0c18509b14e4e73505b242753
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-01-26 18:16:43 UTC 
Created w3m tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1539130]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1539129]
Comment 3 Parag Nemade 2018-06-24 08:48:44 UTC 
Fixed for all the requested releases.
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