Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1902-1 elinks -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 05 Oct 2009
- Affected Packages:
- elinks
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 380347.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-7224. - More information:
-
Jakub Wilk discovered an off-by-one buffer overflow in the charset handling of elinks, a feature-rich text-mode WWW browser, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code if the user is tricked into opening a malformed HTML page.
For the old stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.11.1-1.2etch2.
The stable distribution (lenny) and the unstable distribution (sid) already contain a patch for this problem.
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_0.11.1-1.2etch2.diff.gz
- 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_0.11.1-1.2etch2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1.orig.tar.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_ia64.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.