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Fedora Core 6 : elinks-0.11.1-5.1 (2006-1278)

high Nessus Plugin ID 24056

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Tue Nov 21 2006 Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> 0.11.1-5.1

 - fix #215734: CVE-2006-5925 elinks smb protocol arbitrary file access

 - Wed Oct 11 2006 Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> 0.11.1-5

 - fix #210103 - elinks crashes when given bad HTTP_PROXY

 - Wed Jul 12 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>
 - 0.11.1-4.1

 - rebuild

 - Mon Jun 12 2006 Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> 0.11.1-4

 - improved negotiate-auth patch (faster now)

 - Fri Jun 9 2006 Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> 0.11.1-3

 - added negotiate-auth (GSSAPI) support -- EXPERIMENTAL!

 - Mon May 29 2006 Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> 0.11.1-2

 - update to new upstream version

 - Wed May 17 2006 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.de> 0.11.0-3

 - add buildrequires bzip2-devel, expat-devel,libidn-devel

 - Fri Feb 10 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>
 - 0.11.0-2.2

 - bump again for double-long bug on ppc(64)

 - Tue Feb 7 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>
 - 0.11.0-2.1

 - rebuilt for new gcc4.1 snapshot and glibc changes

 - Tue Jan 10 2006 Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> 0.11.0-2

 - use upstream version of srcdir.patch

 - Tue Jan 10 2006 Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> 0.11.0-1

 - update to new upstream version

 - fix 0.11.0 build system (srcdir.patch)

 - regenerate patches: elinks-0.11.0-getaddrinfo.patch, elinks-0.11.0-ssl-noegd.patch, elinks-0.11.0-sysname.patch, elinks-0.11.0-union.patch

 - Fri Dec 9 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> 0.10.6-2.1

 - rebuilt

 - Wed Nov 9 2005 Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> 0.10.6-2

 - rebuild (against new openssl)

 - Thu Sep 29 2005 Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> 0.10.6-1

 - update to new upstream version

 - Tue May 17 2005 Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> 0.10.3-3

 - fix #157300 - Strange behavior on ppc64 (patch by Miloslav Trmac)

 - Tue May 10 2005 Miloslav Trmac <mitr at redhat.com> - 0.10.3-2

 - Fix checking for numeric command prefix (#152953, patch by Jonas Fonseca)

 - Fix invalid C causing assertion errors on ppc and ia64 (#156647)

 - Mon Mar 21 2005 Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> 0.10.3-1

 - sync with upstream; stable 0.10.3

 - Sat Mar 5 2005 Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> 0.10.2-2

 - rebuilt

 - Tue Feb 8 2005 Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> 0.10.2-1

 - sync with upstream; stable 0.10.2

 - Fri Jan 28 2005 Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> 0.10.1-1

 - sync with upstream; stable 0.10.1

 - Thu Oct 14 2004 Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> 0.9.2-2

 - the 'Linux' driver seems better than 'VT100' for xterm (#128105)

 - Wed Oct 6 2004 Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> 0.9.2-1

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Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected elinks and / or elinks-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?00bdc36c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 24056

File Name: fedora_2006-1278.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/17/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:elinks, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:elinks-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 11/21/2006

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2006-1278