w3m: SSL spoofing vulnerability An error in the hostname matching of w3m might enable remote attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks. w3m 2012-10-18 2012-10-18 325431 remote 0.5.2-r4 0.5.2-r4

w3m is a text based WWW browser.

A SSL spoofing vulnerability has been discovered in w3m. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

A remote attacker might employ a specially crafted certificate to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks on SSL connections made using w3m.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All w3m users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/w3m-0.5.2-r4" CVE-2010-2074 craig craig