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CVSSv2

CVE-2006-6772

Published: 27/12/2006 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 828
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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Vulnerability Summary

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

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References

CWE-134http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1612792&group_id=39518&atid=425439http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21735http://securitytracker.com/id?1017440http://secunia.com/advisories/23492http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-December/051457.htmlhttp://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.044.htmlhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-399-1http://secunia.com/advisories/23588http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_05_w3m.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/23717http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-06.xmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/23773http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2415http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2416http://secunia.com/advisories/23792http://w3m.cvs.sourceforge.net/w3m/w3m/file.c?r1=1.249&r2=1.250http://w3m.cvs.sourceforge.net/w3m/w3m/file.c?view=loghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24332http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5164https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34821https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31114http://w3m.cvs.sourceforge.net/%2Acheckout%2A/w3m/w3m/NEWS?revision=1.79https://nvd.nist.gov
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