Debian Security Advisory DSA 2592-1 (elinks - Programming Error) Network Vulnerability

Summary

Marko Myllynen discovered that ELinks, a powerful text-mode browser, incorrectly delegates user credentials during GSS-Negotiate.

Solution

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.12~pre5-2+squeeze1. Since the initial Squeeze release, XULRunner needed to be updated and the version currently in the archive is incompatible with ELinks. As such, JavaScript support needed to be disabled (only a small subset of typical functionality was supported anyway). It will likely be re-enabled in a later point update. For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.12~pre5-9. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.12~pre5-9. We recommend that you upgrade your elinks packages.

Insight

ELinks is a feature-rich program for browsing the web in text mode. It is like enhanced Lynx and Links. The most noteworthy features of ELinks are:

Affected

elinks on Debian Linux

Detection

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

References