Synopsis

Critical: elinks security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Critical

Topic

An updated elinks package that corrects a security vulnerability is now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red
Hat Security Response Team.

Description

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

An arbitrary file access flaw was found in the Elinks SMB protocol handler.
A malicious web page could have caused Elinks to read or write files with
the permissions of the user running Elinks. (CVE-2006-5925)

All users of Elinks are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves this issue by removing support for the SMB protocol from Elinks.

Note: this issue did not affect the Elinks package shipped with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 3, or the Links package shipped with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 2.1.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.

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 - 215731 - CVE-2006-5925 elinks smb protocol arbitrary file access

CVEs

• CVE-2006-5925

References

• http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?&m=116355556512780
• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4

SRPM
elinks-0.9.2-3.3.src.rpm	SHA-256: 448511b2ebaada01ea998036c13336abf4e6658a6e21468d204b769626afe5bc
x86_64
elinks-0.9.2-3.3.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 72d7d891adb9e0f900bec4147a15863115cb87f61efc741aacc76cb6160c1dfe
elinks-0.9.2-3.3.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 72d7d891adb9e0f900bec4147a15863115cb87f61efc741aacc76cb6160c1dfe
ia64
elinks-0.9.2-3.3.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: 38e85f733c1ef74575caf80de16ba02a6f245bd22e876d2f271eb81579e74f61
elinks-0.9.2-3.3.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: 38e85f733c1ef74575caf80de16ba02a6f245bd22e876d2f271eb81579e74f61
i386
elinks-0.9.2-3.3.i386.rpm	SHA-256: f93412bf9ad04051eac74ac9e2b528024d91952a299102a78cd7f0e655f09ad4
elinks-0.9.2-3.3.i386.rpm	SHA-256: f93412bf9ad04051eac74ac9e2b528024d91952a299102a78cd7f0e655f09ad4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4

SRPM
elinks-0.9.2-3.3.src.rpm	SHA-256: 448511b2ebaada01ea998036c13336abf4e6658a6e21468d204b769626afe5bc
x86_64
elinks-0.9.2-3.3.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 72d7d891adb9e0f900bec4147a15863115cb87f61efc741aacc76cb6160c1dfe
ia64
elinks-0.9.2-3.3.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: 38e85f733c1ef74575caf80de16ba02a6f245bd22e876d2f271eb81579e74f61
i386
elinks-0.9.2-3.3.i386.rpm	SHA-256: f93412bf9ad04051eac74ac9e2b528024d91952a299102a78cd7f0e655f09ad4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4

SRPM
elinks-0.9.2-3.3.src.rpm	SHA-256: 448511b2ebaada01ea998036c13336abf4e6658a6e21468d204b769626afe5bc
x86_64
elinks-0.9.2-3.3.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 72d7d891adb9e0f900bec4147a15863115cb87f61efc741aacc76cb6160c1dfe
i386
elinks-0.9.2-3.3.i386.rpm	SHA-256: f93412bf9ad04051eac74ac9e2b528024d91952a299102a78cd7f0e655f09ad4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4

SRPM
elinks-0.9.2-3.3.src.rpm	SHA-256: 448511b2ebaada01ea998036c13336abf4e6658a6e21468d204b769626afe5bc
s390x
elinks-0.9.2-3.3.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: e9a4bcd65ee650002279d59432b7710f96156b6cba8933b7d480526b26c14e47
s390
elinks-0.9.2-3.3.s390.rpm	SHA-256: 1c6531b03fd49af8d3200b968232498a1c08ac96f324f588dd082ea2e0771cba

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4

SRPM
elinks-0.9.2-3.3.src.rpm	SHA-256: 448511b2ebaada01ea998036c13336abf4e6658a6e21468d204b769626afe5bc
ppc
elinks-0.9.2-3.3.ppc.rpm	SHA-256: db14c34eaecdd1a6db100e10193daf3ca2956b42981862985d484dc1322ab971