CESA-2006:0742: elinks security update
Description
An updated elinks package that corrects a security vulnerability is now available for CentOS Linux 4. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
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 CentOS Enterprise Linux 3, or the Links package shipped with CentOS Linux 2.1.
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