Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.66112
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu USN-851-1 (elinks)
Summary:	Ubuntu USN-851-1 (elinks)
Description:	The remote host is missing an update to elinks announced via advisory USN-851-1. 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) Solution: 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. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-851-1
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-5925 Bugtraq: 20061115 Links smbclient command execution (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/451870/100/200/threaded http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=full-disclosure&m=116355556512780&w=2 Debian Security Information: DSA-1228 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1228 Debian Security Information: DSA-1226 (Google Search) http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-security-announce-2006/msg00327.html Debian Security Information: DSA-1240 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1240 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-16.xml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-27.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:216 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0742.html SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2006:027 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_27_sr.html http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0005 BugTraq ID: 21082 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21082 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11213 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017232 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017233 http://secunia.com/advisories/22905 http://secunia.com/advisories/22920 http://secunia.com/advisories/22923 http://secunia.com/advisories/23022 http://secunia.com/advisories/23132 http://secunia.com/advisories/23234 http://secunia.com/advisories/23188 http://secunia.com/advisories/23467 http://secunia.com/advisories/23389 http://secunia.com/advisories/24005 http://secunia.com/advisories/24054 XForce ISS Database: links-smbclient-command-execution(30299) http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/30299 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-7224 http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/elinks-users/2008-February/001604.html http://osvdb.org/41949 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10126
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