Debian: DSA-1240-1 Medium: Links2 Insufficient Sanitisation Command Exec
debian
December 21, 2006
Teemu Salmela discovered that the links2 character mode web browser performs insufficient sanitising of smb:// URIs, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary shell commands.
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Summary
For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been
fixed in version 2.1pre26-1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1pre26-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your links2 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 3.1 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 28658 a83c79990bbfb6f9ec26d737f767ee90
Size/MD5 checksum: 4217483 7baf4fc20cc244d80ead21cebff...
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