RHBA-2005:157 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated elinks package that fixes a crash bug is now available.

Description

Elinks is a text mode Web browser used from the command line that supports
rendering modern webpages.

Previously, elinks would crash due to memory exhaustion when rendering
HTML tables of an extremly large size as defined by large COLSPAN or ROWSPAN
attributes. Rendering these large tables consumed all of the system
memory, because there was no limit within elinks on the size of these
attributes.

All users of elinks should upgrade tho this updated package, which resolves
this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied. Use Red Hat
Network to download and update your packages. To launch the Red Hat
Update Agent, use the following command:

up2date

For information on how to install packages manually, refer to the
following Web page for the System Administration or Customization
guide specific to your system:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc

Fixes

• BZ - 146446 - RHEL4: elinks - row/colspan out of memory

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)