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Posted on 28 December 2006
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Publisher Name: OpenPKG GmbH
Publisher Home: http://openpkg.com/
Advisory Id (public): OpenPKG-SA-2006.043
Advisory Type: OpenPKG Security Advisory (SA)
Advisory Directory: http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA
Advisory Document: http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA-2006.043
Advisory Published: 2006-12-26 13:52 UTC
Issue Id (internal): OpenPKG-SI-20061226.03
Issue First Created: 2006-12-26
Issue Last Modified: 2006-12-26
Issue Revision: 03
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Subject Name: Links
Subject Summary: Web Browser
Subject Home: http://links.twibright.com/
Subject Versions: * < 2.1pre26
Vulnerability Id: CVE-2006-5925
Vulnerability Scope: global (not OpenPKG specific)
Attack Feasibility: run-time
Attack Vector: remote network
Attack Impact: arbitrary code execution
Description:
Teemu Salmela discovered [0] that the Links [1] character-mode
web-browser performs insufficient sanitising of URLs based on the
"smb" scheme, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary shell
commands. The problem is triggered by the shell meta characters '"'
and ';' in URLs starting with "smb://" on GET and PUT requests.
References:
[0] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?&m=116355556512780
[1] http://links.twibright.com/
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Primary Package Name: links
Primary Package Home: http://openpkg.org/go/package/links
Corrected Distribution: Corrected Branch: Corrected Package:
OpenPKG Enterprise E1.0-SOLID links-2.1pre23-E1.0.1
OpenPKG Community 2-STABLE-20061018 links-2.1pre26-20061222
OpenPKG Community 2-STABLE links-2.1pre26-20061222
OpenPKG Community CURRENT links-2.1pre26-20061130
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