Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1228-1 elinks -- insufficient escaping
- Date Reported:
- 05 Dec 2006
- Affected Packages:
- elinks
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 399188.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-5925. - More information:
-
Teemu Salmela discovered that the elinks character mode web browser performs insufficient sanitising of smb:// URIs, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary shell commands.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.10.4-7.1.
For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 0.11.1-1.2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.11.1-1.2.
We recommend that you upgrade your elinks package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_arm.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_ia64.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.