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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-6772
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2006-6772

Description:
Format string vulnerability in the inputAnswer function in file.c in w3m before 0.5.2, when run with the dump or backend option, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the Common Name (CN) field of an SSL certificate associated with an https URL.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/31114
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/34821

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-399-1

SUSE
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_05_w3m.html

ST
  1017440

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA23492
  Secunia Advisory: SA23588
  Secunia Advisory: SA23717
  Secunia Advisory: SA23773
  Secunia Advisory: SA23792

OPENPKG
  http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.044.html

MISC
  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1612792&group_id=39518&atid=425439

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-06.xml

FULLDISC
  http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-December/051457.html

FEDORA
  http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2416
  http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2415

CONFIRM
  http://w3m.cvs.sourceforge.net/w3m/w3m/file.c?r1=1.249&r2=1.250
  http://w3m.cvs.sourceforge.net/w3m/w3m/file.c?view=log
  http://w3m.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/w3m/w3m/NEWS?revision=1.79

BID
  21735
  24332


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