metadata/glsa/glsa-201210-01.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201210-01">
  <title>w3m: SSL spoofing vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>An error in the hostname matching of w3m might enable remote
    attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks. 
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">w3m</product>
  <announced>October 18, 2012</announced>
  <revised>October 18, 2012: 1</revised>
  <bug>325431</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="www-client/w3m" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.5.2-r4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.5.2-r4</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>w3m is a text based WWW browser.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A SSL spoofing vulnerability has been discovered in w3m. Please review
      the CVE identifier referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker might employ a specially crafted certificate to
      conduct man-in-the-middle attacks on SSL connections made using w3m. 
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All w3m users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=www-client/w3m-0.5.2-r4"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-2074">CVE-2010-2074</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:37:00 +0000">craig</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:42:33 +0000">craig</metadata>
</glsa>