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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS USN-851-1 Critical: Elinks Input Flaw Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey October 21, 2009
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Significant vulnerabilities in Elinks for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS lead to potential remote code execution and denial of service threats.
Teemu Salmela discovered that Elinks did not properly validate input whenprocessing smb:// URLs

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