Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1380-1 elinks -- programming error
- Date Reported:
- 02 Oct 2007
- Affected Packages:
- elinks
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 443891.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-5034. - More information:
-
Kalle Olavi Niemitalo discovered that elinks, an advanced text-mode WWW browser, sent HTTP POST data in cleartext when using an HTTPS proxy server potentially allowing private information to be disclosed.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.11.1-1.2etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.11.1-1.5.
We recommend that you upgrade your elinks package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.