DSA-1226-1 links -- insufficient escaping

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1226-1 links -- insufficient escaping

Date Reported:

03 Dec 2006

Affected Packages:

links

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 399187.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-5925.

More information:

Teemu Salmela discovered that the links 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 0.99+1.00pre12-1sarge1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 0.99+1.00pre12-1.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.99+1.00pre12-1.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your links package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links/links_0.99+1.00pre12-1sarge1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links/links_0.99+1.00pre12-1sarge1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links/links_0.99+1.00pre12.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links/links-ssl_0.99+1.00pre12-1sarge1_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links/links_0.99+1.00pre12-1sarge1_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links/links_0.99+1.00pre12-1sarge1_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links/links_0.99+1.00pre12-1sarge1_arm.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links/links_0.99+1.00pre12-1sarge1_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links/links_0.99+1.00pre12-1sarge1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links/links_0.99+1.00pre12-1sarge1_ia64.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links/links_0.99+1.00pre12-1sarge1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links/links_0.99+1.00pre12-1sarge1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links/links_0.99+1.00pre12-1sarge1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links/links_0.99+1.00pre12-1sarge1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links/links_0.99+1.00pre12-1sarge1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links/links_0.99+1.00pre12-1sarge1_sparc.deb

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