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October 21st, 2009, 05:50 PM
Referenced CVEs:
CVE-2006-5925, CVE-2008-7224
Description:
================================================== ========= Ubuntu Security Notice USN-851-1 October 21, 2009 elinks vulnerabilities CVE-2006-5925, CVE-2008-7224 ================================================== ========= A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: elinks 0.10.6-1ubuntu3.4 elinks-lite 0.10.6-1ubuntu3.4 After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Elinks to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Teemu Salmela discovered that Elinks did not properly validate input when processing smb:// URLs. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website and had smbclient installed, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2006-5925) Jakub Wilk discovered a logic error in Elinks, leading to a buffer overflow. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2008-7224)
More... (http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-851-1)
CVE-2006-5925, CVE-2008-7224
Description:
================================================== ========= Ubuntu Security Notice USN-851-1 October 21, 2009 elinks vulnerabilities CVE-2006-5925, CVE-2008-7224 ================================================== ========= A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: elinks 0.10.6-1ubuntu3.4 elinks-lite 0.10.6-1ubuntu3.4 After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Elinks to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Teemu Salmela discovered that Elinks did not properly validate input when processing smb:// URLs. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website and had smbclient installed, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2006-5925) Jakub Wilk discovered a logic error in Elinks, leading to a buffer overflow. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2008-7224)
More... (http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-851-1)