Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1380-1 elinks -- programming error

Date Reported:
02 Oct 2007
Affected Packages:
elinks
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 443891.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-5034.
More information:

Kalle Olavi Niemitalo discovered that elinks, an advanced text-mode WWW browser, sent HTTP POST data in cleartext when using an HTTPS proxy server potentially allowing private information to be disclosed.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.11.1-1.2etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.11.1-1.5.

We recommend that you upgrade your elinks package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1.orig.tar.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1.dsc
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_arm.deb
HP Precision:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2etch1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/elinks/elinks-lite_0.11.1-1.2etch1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.