Package : links Vulnerability : insufficient escaping Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-5925 Debian Bug : 399187
Teemu Salmela discovered that the links character mode web browser performs insufficient sanitising of smb:// URIs, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary shell commands.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.99+1.00pre12-1sarge1.
For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 0.99+1.00pre12-1.1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.99+1.00pre12-1.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your links package.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------