Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : elinks vulnerabilities (USN-851-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 42208

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Teemu Salmela discovered that Elinks did not properly validate input when processing smb:// URLs. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website and had smbclient installed, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2006-5925)

Jakub Wilk discovered a logic error in Elinks, leading to a buffer overflow. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2008-7224).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected elinks and / or elinks-lite packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/851-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 42208

File Name: ubuntu_USN-851-1.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/22/2009

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:elinks, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:elinks-lite, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 10/21/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-5925, CVE-2008-7224

CWE: 119

USN: 851-1