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CVE-2018-6198

CVE-2018-6198

EPSS 0.4%
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.
Affected products
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References
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00028.htmlhttps://bugs.debian.org/888097https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/18dcbadf2771cdb0c18509b14e4e73505b242753https://salsa.debian.org/debian/w3m/commit/18dcbadf2771cdb0c18509b14e4e73505b242753https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1/https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102855