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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2001.439 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 081-2
No w3m packages for powerpc available
19 October 2001
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: w3m
w3m-ssl
Vendor: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
Platform: PowerPC
Impact: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands
Access Required: Remote
Ref: ESB-2001.434
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 081-2 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
October 18th, 2001
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Packages : w3m, w3m-ssl
Vulnerability : Buffer Overflow
Problem-Type : remote code execution
Debian-specific: no
In SNS Advisory No. 32 a buffer overflow vulnerability has been
reported in the routine which parses MIME headers that are returned
from web servers. A malicious web server administrator could exploit
this and let the client web browser execute arbitrary code.
We are awfully sorry, but the powerpc version in our announcement DSA
081-1 was built on the wrong distribution (unstable instead of
stable), and thus depended on a wrong version of the glibc. We had to
remove that file and cannot provide a fixed version.
For the powerpc architecture there is only a very old version of w3m
available. We recommend that you don't use w3m on the powerpc
distribution. If you require a text browser please check out links
and lynx which are both good and stable.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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