debian · CVE-2018-6198

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Priority: unimportant Published: Updated: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:00:03 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2018-6198 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (w3m), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

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.

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