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Red Hat update for elinks
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA36910
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Release Date:
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2009-10-02
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Popularity:
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1,138 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Server)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Red Hat has issued an update for elinks. This fixes a weakness and a vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges, and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a user's system.
1) A weakness is caused due to eLinks reading gettext catalogs from potentially untrusted paths.
For more information:
SA25169
2) An error within the "get_entity_string()" function in src/intl/charsets.c can be exploited to cause a static buffer overflow and e.g. cause a crash or potentially execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted HTML file.
Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
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