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- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1240-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/security/ Steve Kemp December 21, 2006 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : links2 Vulnerability : insufficient escaping Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2006-5925 Debian Bug : 400718 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. 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 3.1 (stable) - ------------------- Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 28658 a83c79990bbfb6f9ec26d737f767ee90 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 4217483 7baf4fc20cc244d80ead21cebff07d89 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 841 ed4853334b7eebef055271df06cdcd7a alpha architecture (DEC Alpha) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 2110324 b3633fddb199c45339d3837bb0a519a0 amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 2040922 5fb402e6a833709741d20238346c7597 arm architecture (ARM) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1996004 c7c79ddcb82d5758668ed71d74b9685f i386 architecture (Intel ia32) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1997426 4c1ef611e31c57583f7471653962a84a m68k architecture (Motorola Mc680x0) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1904084 e5c777a07eaa88f4367b51d88c556a14 mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian)) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 2034596 22854de6eaf3aa1e392291760e85e5e8 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@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFil26wM/Gs81MDZ0RAvPPAJ9cxthVIvv2w2UmXuzhiiPR21aOjgCgo7J8 vA5Gql5VNhz4zm/QV5K4pig= =JT/Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
