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Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200701-27 (elinks)
Information
Severity
Severity
High
Family
Family
Gentoo Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
7.5
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
15 years ago
Modified
Modified
6 years ago
Summary
The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200701-27.
Insight
Insight
ELinks does not properly validate 'smb://' URLs, making it vulnerable to the execution of arbitrary Samba commands.
Solution
Solution
All ELinks users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-client/elinks-0.11.2' http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=GLSA%20200701-27 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155358