USN-457-1: elinks vulnerability
7 May 2007
elinks vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 7.04
- Ubuntu 6.10
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Software Description
Details
Arnaud Giersch discovered that elinks incorrectly attempted to load gettext catalogs from a relative path. If a user were tricked into running elinks from a specific directory, a local attacker could execute code with user privileges.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 7.04
- elinks - 0.11.1-1.2ubuntu2.1
- Ubuntu 6.10
- elinks - 0.11.1-1ubuntu2.1
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
- elinks - 0.10.6-1ubuntu3.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.