-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1902-1 security@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff October 05, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : elinks Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem type : local(remote) Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-7224 Debian Bug : 380347 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. 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. We recommend that you upgrade your elinks package. Upgrade instructions - -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch - ------------------------------- Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 30564 48727476dbfed45200797a0504fa6e4a http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 3863617 dce0fa7cb2b6e7194ddd00e34825218b http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 872 870acbbc16c166c0e17669f435cf4478 alpha architecture (DEC Alpha) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 496748 65a9e90caf0005912d0f307447bb7252 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1264746 750b9c9425d331afdd84ae9e8ec397cc amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 457658 d35d0729240a9a3e4edf596fab8b5519 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1219062 eeb677af4bd1f969062dcc49a6c5797f arm architecture (ARM) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1179258 2236eef0018c35106157254f1a9b5371 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 417026 d6298439e61cfd390dc5f885fa6d3ce9 hppa architecture (HP PA RISC) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1249718 200ea460bf1c50c7c77fb818b99d6f93 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 481296 4d1ffd49415dc0f727fec71843e0cf1e i386 architecture (Intel ia32) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 423782 fd2bdd5f8d85049dd34e9d392cfb0d55 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1188386 6b5bd5cc0801cc98c5f89eb755036a58 ia64 architecture (Intel ia64) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1432996 3f1c8fd354685e153aa0bf6001811f72 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 624264 6ab1d3d6329c2fbbd366c7979846be04 mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian)) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1223924 88dab6a6625382e7d7531f9f45f2fb6d http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 466916 3f54531dc562935768748e8626c3cd8a powerpc architecture (PowerPC) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 450082 4cb3cbeda69cd02ddc99b132d26998c5 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1216856 ed85e75381a7bfdd094e21e0e16ecbfd s390 architecture (IBM S/390) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1232366 5eafbb1dcf688fe54bd347afab8d6da8 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 470580 9da53a0cc795e3943c250a44810f006d sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch2_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 419686 6177d561615f0c17f9e46e3642899870 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch2_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1186370 1f7db95ad501df7b756e3ccaf2dc754d These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrKLEAACgkQXm3vHE4uylpXOACgy94wa4gsQtxO/emAzsvdqWfU UTIAoJJATXsEq2GO6BrEBTE/UVIVWZib =VSyK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
