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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.59712
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 7 FEDORA-2007-2224 (elinks)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to elinks
announced via advisory FEDORA-2007-2224.

Links is a text-based Web browser. Links does not display any images,
but it does support frames, tables and most other HTML tags. Links'
advantage over graphical browsers is its speed--Links starts and exits
quickly and swiftly displays Web pages.

Update Information:

Update done because of security issue in elinks 0.11.2 , in this update are included other changes done in devel branch meanwhile(license tags,open macro,license file missing,duplicate buildrequires).
ChangeLog:

* Thu Sep 20 2007 Ondrej Vasik 0.11.3-1
- update to new upstream version (required for #297981)
- removed patch for #210103 , included in upstream release
- updated patch elinks-0.11.1-negotiate.patch to pass build
- fix of open macro(new glibc) by Joe Orton
- changed license tag to GPLv2
- added License file to doc, cleanup of dups in buildreq
- (from package review by Tyler Owen(#225725))
References:

[ 1 ] Bug #297981 - elinks reveals POST data to HTTPS proxy [F7]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=297981
[ 2 ] CVE-2007-5034
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5034
Updated packages:

84a55623ae8b205fcdfbc8268703d8d787d8a4bd elinks-debuginfo-0.11.3-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
5420155f2a6b2fa1c9634703025cbb8ed17f1192 elinks-0.11.3-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
a574a28c5f30e8078ae32a233b7785c7a9819641 elinks-0.11.3-1.fc7.i386.rpm
1b2a6108edda03c064ec1f1c94d1614448c65bf5 elinks-debuginfo-0.11.3-1.fc7.i386.rpm
958525f768ecf75a3b0595157ed591b911c98562 elinks-debuginfo-0.11.3-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
3a71a91b08bf67579d2a69ce2ba1e0df577d9ca5 elinks-0.11.3-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
dbb051d32f080c66c03b8e6a4510db4bf734c615 elinks-debuginfo-0.11.3-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
8e760c1b629024ce53738b5a463e94a2e4240417 elinks-0.11.3-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
9c847711649bae72fab1f927be84093e097ab5cd elinks-0.11.3-1.fc7.src.rpm

This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update elinks'
at the command line. For more information, refer to Managing Software
with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2007-2224

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
4.3

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-5034
BugTraq ID: 25799
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25799
Bugtraq: 20071005 rPSA-2007-0209-1 elinks (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/481606/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1380 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1380
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00335.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00079.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10335
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0933.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018764
http://secunia.com/advisories/26936
http://secunia.com/advisories/26949
http://secunia.com/advisories/26956
http://secunia.com/advisories/27038
http://secunia.com/advisories/27062
http://secunia.com/advisories/27125
http://secunia.com/advisories/27132
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-519-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3278
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