7.8 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.016 Low
EPSS
Percentile
87.5%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:1471
ELinks is a text-based Web browser. ELinks does not display any images, but
it does support frames, tables, and most other HTML tags.
An off-by-one buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the way ELinks handled
its internal cache of string representations for HTML special entities. A
remote attacker could use this flaw to create a specially-crafted HTML file
that would cause ELinks to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code when
rendered. (CVE-2008-7224)
It was discovered that ELinks tried to load translation files using
relative paths. A local attacker able to trick a victim into running ELinks
in a folder containing specially-crafted translation files could use this
flaw to confuse the victim via incorrect translations, or cause ELinks to
crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via embedded formatting sequences
in translated messages. (CVE-2007-2027)
All ELinks users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
contains backported patches to resolve these issues.
Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-October/078339.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-October/078340.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-October/078386.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-October/078387.html
Affected packages:
elinks
Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1471
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CentOS | 4 | i386 | elinks | < 0.9.2-4.el4_8.1 | elinks-0.9.2-4.el4_8.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 4 | i386 | elinks | < 0.9.2-4.el4_8.1 | elinks-0.9.2-4.el4_8.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 4 | x86_64 | elinks | < 0.9.2-4.el4_8.1 | elinks-0.9.2-4.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 4 | x86_64 | elinks | < 0.9.2-4.el4_8.1 | elinks-0.9.2-4.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | elinks | < 0.11.1-6.el5_4.1 | elinks-0.11.1-6.el5_4.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | elinks | < 0.11.1-6.el5_4.1 | elinks-0.11.1-6.el5_4.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | x86_64 | elinks | < 0.11.1-6.el5_4.1 | elinks-0.11.1-6.el5_4.1.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | x86_64 | elinks | < 0.11.1-6.el5_4.1 | elinks-0.11.1-6.el5_4.1.x86_64.rpm |