Ubuntu Security Notice USN-457-1
7th 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
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 version:
- 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.