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Scientific Linux: CVE-2007-5034 Elinks Moderate Severity Issue

Calendar Oct 04, 2007 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory moderate severity information disclosure elinks Scientific Linux
Moderate: elinks security update 
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:16:24 -0500
Reply-To: Connie Sieh 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Connie Sieh 
Subject: Security ERRATA for elinks on SL5.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64
Comments: To: scientific 

Synopsis: Moderate: elinks security update
CVE Names: CVE-2007-5034

Details:

An information disclosure flaw was found in the way ELinks passes https
POST data to a proxy server. POST data sent via a proxy to an https site is
not properly encrypted by ELinks, possibly allowing the disclosure of
sensitive information. (CVE-2007-5034)

SL4.x
 SRPMS:
 	elinks-0.9.2-3.3.5.2.src.rpm

 i386:
 	elinks-0.9.2-3.3.5.2.i386.rpm

 x86_64:
 	elinks-0.9.2-3.3.5.2.x86_64.rpm

SL5.x
 SRPMS:
 	elinks-0.11.1-5.1.0.1.el5.src.rpm

 i386:
 	elinks-0.11.1-5.1.0.1.el5.i386.rpm

 x86_64:
 	elinks-0.11.1-5.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson