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RHEL 5 / 6 : elinks (RHSA-2013:0250)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 64565

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An updated elinks package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

ELinks is a text-based web browser. ELinks does not display any images, but it does support frames, tables, and most other HTML tags.

It was found that ELinks performed client credentials delegation during the client-to-server GSS security mechanisms negotiation. A rogue server could use this flaw to obtain the client's credentials and impersonate that client to other servers that are using GSSAPI.
(CVE-2012-4545)

This issue was discovered by Marko Myllynen of Red Hat.

All ELinks users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to resolve the issue.

Solution

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

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0250

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-4545

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 64565

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2013-0250.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/12/2013

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:elinks-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:elinks, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.9

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/11/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/2/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4545

RHSA: 2013:0250