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CVE-2006-6772

Public Date:: 2006-12-25

Bugzilla:: 221484: CVE-2006-6772 w3m is vulnerable to format string attack via CN field of SSL/TLS certificate when infoked with -dump/-backend

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2006-6772 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

Last Modified 2018-04-28T03:50:17+00:00

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