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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201210-01">
+ <title>w3m: SSL spoofing vulnerability</title>
+ <synopsis>An error in the hostname matching of w3m might enable remote
+ attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">w3m</product>
+ <announced>2012-10-18</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2012-10-18</revised>
+ <bug>325431</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="www-client/w3m" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">0.5.2-r4</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">0.5.2-r4</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>w3m is a text based WWW browser.</p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>A SSL spoofing vulnerability has been discovered in w3m. Please review
+ the CVE identifier referenced below for details.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>A remote attacker might employ a specially crafted certificate to
+ conduct man-in-the-middle attacks on SSL connections made using w3m.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All w3m users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=www-client/w3m-0.5.2-r4"
+ </code>
+
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-2074">CVE-2010-2074</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2011-10-07T23:37:00Z">craig</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2012-10-18T20:42:33Z">craig</metadata>
+</glsa>