Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1240-1 links2 -- insufficient escaping
- Date Reported:
- 21 Dec 2006
- Affected Packages:
- links2
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 400718.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-5925. - More information:
-
Teemu Salmela discovered that the links2 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 2.1pre16-1sarge1.
For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1pre26-1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1pre26-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your links2 package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (stable)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16.orig.tar.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1_i386.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1_mips.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.