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elinks: arbitrary file access

Package(s):elinks CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5925
Created:November 16, 2006 Updated:October 22, 2009
Description: The elinks text-mode browser has an arbitrary file access vulnerability in the Elinks SMB protocol handler. If a user can be tricked into visiting a specially crafted web page, arbitrary files may be read or written with the user's permissions.
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-851-1 2009-10-21
Gentoo 200701-27 2007-01-30
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.043 2006-12-26
Debian DSA-1240-1 2006-12-21
Gentoo 200612-16 2006-12-14
Debian DSA-1228-1 2006-12-05
Debian DSA-1226-1 2006-12-03
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1278 2006-11-21
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1277 2006-11-21
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:216 2006-11-20
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0742-01 2006-11-15
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