Advisory ROSA-SA-2021-1827

Software: elinks 0.12 OS: Cobalt 7.9 CVE-ID: CVE-2012-6709 CVE-Crit: MEDIUM CVE-DESC: ELinks 0.12 and Twibright Links 2.3 lack SSL certificate validation. CVE-STATUS: Default CVE-REV: Default...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

elinks is vulnerable to denial of service DoS. The vulnerability exists as a 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 fi...

Arbitrary Code Execution

elinks is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability exists as 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...

Information Disclosure

elinks is vulnerable information disclosure. An information disclosure flaw was found in the way ELinks passes https POST data to a proxy server. POST data sent via a proxy to an https site is not properly encrypted by ELinks, possibly allowing the disclosure of sensitive information...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for elinks (EulerOS-SA-2019-2376)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for elinks (EulerOS-SA-2019-2142)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for elinks (EulerOS-SA-2019-2574)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : elinks (EulerOS-SA-2019-2574)

According to the version of the elinks package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - ELinks 0.12 and Twibright Links 2.3 have Missing SSL Certificate Validation.CVE-2012-6709 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : elinks (EulerOS-SA-2019-2376)

According to the version of the elinks package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - ELinks 0.12 and Twibright Links 2.3 have Missing SSL Certificate Validation.CVE-2012-6709 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : elinks (EulerOS-SA-2019-2142)

According to the version of the elinks package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - ELinks 0.12 and Twibright Links 2.3 have Missing SSL Certificate Validation.CVE-2012-6709 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

Authentication Bypass

elinks is vulnerable to authentication bypass attacks. The vulnerability exists as the httpnegotiatecreatecontext function in protocol/http/httpnegotiate.c in ELinks 0.12 before 0.12pre6, when using HTTP Negotiate or GSS-Negotiate authentication, delegates user credentials through GSSAPI, which...

ELinks and Twibright Links Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

ELinks is an open source text-only browser for Linux.Twibright Links is a text-only web browser developed by the Twibright Labs organization that renders graphics and font-size variations with antialiasing and supports JavaScript. A security vulnerability exists in ELinks version 0.12 and Twibrig...

CVE-2012-6709

ELinks 0.12 and Twibright Links 2.3 have Missing SSL Certificate Validation...

CVE-2012-6709

ELinks 0.12 and Twibright Links 2.3 have Missing SSL Certificate Validation...

Input validation

ELinks 0.12 and Twibright Links 2.3 have Missing SSL Certificate Validation...

CVE-2012-6709

ELinks 0.12 and Twibright Links 2.3 have Missing SSL Certificate Validation...

CVE-2012-6709

ELinks 0.12 and Twibright Links 2.3 have Missing SSL Certificate Validation...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6709

ELinks 0.12 and Twibright Links 2.3 have Missing SSL Certificate Validation...

UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6709

ELinks 0.12 and Twibright Links 2.3 have Missing SSL Certificate Validation...

CVE-2012-6709

CVE-2012-6709 concerns Elinks 0.12 and Twibright Links 2.3 failing to validate SSL certificates. Connected advisories (EulerOS) and Nessus plugins reference the same issue and identify this as an unpatched vulnerability affecting ELINKS-related packages across multiple Linux distributions. The ro...