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w3m -- format string vulnerability

Affected packages
ja-w3m < 0.5.1_6
ja-w3m-img < 0.5.1_6
w3m < 0.5.1_6
w3m-img < 0.5.1_6
w3m-m17n < 0.5.1_6
w3m-m17n-img < 0.5.1_6

Details

VuXML ID 9347d82d-9a66-11db-b271-000e35248ad7
Discovery 2006-12-10
Entry 2007-01-03

An anonymous person reports:

w3m-0.5.1 crashes when using the -dump or -backend options to open a HTTPS URL with a SSL certificate where the CN contains "%n%n%n%n%n%n".

References

Bugtraq ID 21735
CVE Name CVE-2006-6772
URL http://secunia.com/advisories/23492/
URL http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1612792&group_id=39518&atid=425439