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Debian: DSA 1380-1 Moderate: elinks Remote Information Leak

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Calendar Grey October 2, 2007
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Enhance your elinks software to address the HTTP POST data exposure concern. Safeguard your confidential data from potential breaches immediately.
Kalle Olavi Niemitalo discovered that elinks, an advanced text-mode WWW browser, sent HTTP POST data in cleartext when using an HTTPS proxy server potentially allowing private ...
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security advisory debian moderate severity programming error remote issue information disclosure elinks

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version
0.11.1-1.5.

We recommend that you upgrade your elinks package.

Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 3863617 dce0fa7cb2b6e7194ddd00e34825218b
Size/MD5 checksum: 30543 87f297355ad1e6d20bab5569672aad5e
Size/MD5 checksum: 872 a4af1ff56a8d39bdf1a92cedce2f335c

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

Size/MD5 checksum: 497732 f553f66a91b2245cfa42088a2b4d4517
Size/MD5 checksum: 1260704 10b023af79e...

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