DSA-1228-1 elinks -- insufficient escaping

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.