Summary
The remote host is missing an update to w3m, w3m-ssl announced via advisory DSA 081-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20081-1
Insight
In SNS Advisory No. 32 a buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in the routine which parses MIME headers that are returned from web servers. A malicious web server administrator could exploit this and let the client web browser execute arbitrary code.
W3m handles MIME headers included in the request/response message of HTTP communication like any other we bbrowser. A buffer overflow will be occur when w3m receives a MIME encoded header with base64 format.
This problem has been fixed by the maintainer in version 0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23-4 of w3m and w3m-ssl (for the SSL-enabled version), both for Debian GNU/Linux 2.2.
We recommend that you upgrade your w3m packages immediately.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2001-0700 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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