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Debian DSA-1902-1 : elinks - buffer overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 44767

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Jakub Wilk discovered an off-by-one buffer overflow in the charset handling of elinks, a feature-rich text-mode WWW browser, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code if the user is tricked into opening a malformed HTML page.

Solution

Upgrade the elinks package.

For the old stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.11.1-1.2etch2.

The stable distribution (lenny) and the unstable distribution (sid) already contain a patch for this problem.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=380347

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1902

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 44767

File Name: debian_DSA-1902.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:elinks

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 10/5/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-7224

CWE: 119

DSA: 1902