Advisories, December 5, 2006

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1228-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/
Moritz Muehlenhoff
December 5th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

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Package : elinks
Vulnerability : insufficient escaping
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2006-5925
Debian Bug : 399188

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.

Upgrade Instructions

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wget url

will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb

will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update

will update the internal database apt-get upgrade

will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge

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Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1.dsc

      Size/MD5 checksum: 855
f57923819fa4fce0caca333fb49a08cb
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1.diff.gz

      Size/MD5 checksum: 25157
611bbe8d6abbdec32944915213b3ffea
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4.orig.tar.gz

      Size/MD5 checksum: 3533243
d97d1755f9553a3f5c68a3fe420c6a7c

Alpha architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_alpha.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1439074
2db129d65122955bd31c6a62700f0843
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_alpha.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 764102
0654e01c0d5ee49ddb8d24e01d4bd220

AMD64 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_amd64.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1364322
aa61b139f250715d1e9cb1725bfa7938
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_amd64.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 706090
18b9ebad31887943c0f54aebd0b355d6

ARM architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_arm.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1314146
21885ec226e0eef970c24d0bda2c087c
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_arm.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 664026
f7c2193f6a4a68a090aabafdb7297d1b

HP Precision architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_hppa.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1376592
3cda3866a1e2fcf13e702e789ed075df
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_hppa.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 714314
9e491abd147dc046a3702269d9cd0d1b

Intel IA-32 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_i386.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1325060
0c438d6afad2fbd82f37fb2a92d2e109
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_i386.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 671640
d448bedeaefc0de24d256a862401da14

Intel IA-64 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_ia64.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1536618
c68927923c69e4d51e35df3bbca94736
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_ia64.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 838730
9b10a09bb38f156ab2392774e123ca34

Motorola 680×0 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_m68k.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1282356
ce4945f7b57906ee710bc0fb1fc23d04
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_m68k.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 639332
7e01f8968d3d7c3539164bcd5ddfe390

Big endian MIPS architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_mips.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1368274
72ad629b2802e1027517694a38c923e2
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_mips.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 711436
8fc708e7101e00c668ba06247f851012

Little endian MIPS architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_mipsel.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1365494
de193ce83bc57ee5544410d306d563c4
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_mipsel.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 709948
5f8a7bfba56f7c99f2318f7cb4bde8bb

PowerPC architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_powerpc.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1351744
9fb15425d622021fc9d5aeb23a70077d
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_powerpc.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 692324
dc7a80d14cd4ec9b9f0ad66a0ff4d9ec

IBM S/390 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_s390.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1358028
f2d57e3e90678e07239b24c76462e3e4
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_s390.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 707938
488e81b960f0cb8521e59d043039e6df

Sun Sparc architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1_sparc.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1328470
f1430b94811c29d5e05ec9166d73884b
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.10.4-7.1_sparc.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 672116
5db368ec717809649fe9c6cc590a0eb6

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution
on its next update.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/
stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security
dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>’ and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>;