Debian Security Advisory 1902 elinks – buffer overflow

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Article Source Debian Security Advisories
October 4, 2009, 5:00 pm

Jakub Wilk discovered an off-by-one buffer overflow in the charset handling of elinks, a feature-rich text-mode WWW browser, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code if the user is tricked into opening a malformed HTML page.

For the old stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.11.1-1.2etch2.

The stable distribution (lenny) and the unstable distribution (sid) already contain a patch for this problem.

We recommend that you upgrade your elinks package…

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