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ELinks "add_filename_to_string()" Privilege Escalation

Secunia Advisory:

SA25169

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Release Date:

2007-05-08

Popularity:

4,750 views

Critical:

Not critical

Impact:

Privilege escalation

Where:

Local system

Solution Status:

Vendor Workaround

Software:

ELinks 0.x

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Solution:
Fixed in the GIT repository.
http://pasky.or.cz/gitweb.cgi?p=elink...c564af3c12f40743b7e1adcfd3a034d73b601
http://pasky.or.cz/gitweb.cgi?p=elink...f364ba2803f98d71775dc03b694d6403c0754

Provided and/or discovered by:
Arnaud Giersch

Original Advisory:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417789

http://pasky.or.cz/gitweb.cgi?p=elink...c564af3c12f40743b7e1adcfd3a034d73b601
http://pasky.or.cz/gitweb.cgi?p=elink...f364ba2803f98d71775dc03b694d6403c0754

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