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TITLE:
Red Hat update for elinks

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA36910

VERIFY ADVISORY:
https://secunia.com/advisories/36910/

DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for elinks. This fixes a weakness and a
vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local
users to gain escalated privileges, and by malicious people to cause a
DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a user's system.

1) A weakness is caused due to eLinks reading gettext catalogs from
potentially untrusted paths.

For more information:
SA25169

2) An error within the "get_entity_string()" function in
src/intl/charsets.c can be exploited to cause a static buffer
overflow and e.g. cause a crash or potentially execute arbitrary code
via a specially crafted HTML file.

SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
https://rhn.redhat.com

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
2) Reported by Jakub Wilk in a Debian bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
RHSA-2009-1471:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1471.html

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=380347
https://pasky.or.cz/gitweb.cgi?p=elinks.git;a=commit;h=341d54151f69d087112e1514b928e3fcc1810194

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA25169:
https://secunia.com/advisories/25169/

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