Security Information / 2012 / Security Information -- DSA-2592-1 elinks

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2592-1 elinks -- programming error

Date Reported:

28 Dec 2012

Affected Packages:

elinks

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-4545.

More information:

Marko Myllynen discovered that ELinks, a powerful text-mode browser, incorrectly delegates user credentials during GSS-Negotiate.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.12~pre5-2+squeeze1. Since the initial Squeeze release, XULRunner needed to be updated and the version currently in the archive is incompatible with ELinks. As such, JavaScript support needed to be disabled (only a small subset of typical functionality was supported anyway). It will likely be re-enabled in a later point update.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.12~pre5-9.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.12~pre5-9.

We recommend that you upgrade your elinks packages.