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ELinks Proxy CONNECT Weakness
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA26956
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Release Date:
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2007-09-25
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Popularity:
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5,371 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Exposure of sensitive information
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Where:
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From local network
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | ELinks 0.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2007-5034
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Description:
A weakness has been reported in ELinks, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.
The content of POST requests sent to HTTPS webservers via a proxy is sent unencrypted via the CONNECT command to the configured proxy. This can be exploited to disclose the content of POST requests by e.g. sniffing network traffic.
The weakness is reported in versions prior to 0.11.3.
Solution:
Update to version 0.11.3.
http://www.elinks.cz/download.html
Provided and/or discovered by:
Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
Original Advisory:
http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/show_bug.cgi?id=937
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