Executive Summary

Summary
Title Links: SSL verification vulnerability
Informations
Name GLSA-201206-32 First vendor Publication 2012-06-25
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2012-06-25
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector :
Cvss Base Score Not Defined Attack Range Not Defined
Cvss Impact Score Not Defined Attack Complexity Not Defined
Cvss Expoit Score Not Defined Authentication Not Defined
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Detail

Synopsis

An error in the verification of SSL certificates in Links might enable remote attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks.

Background

Links is a fast lightweight text and graphic web-browser.

Description

A SSL verification vulnerability and two unspecified vulnerabilities have been discovered in Links. Please review the Secunia Advisory referenced below for details.

Impact

An attacker might conduct man-in-the-middle attacks. The unspecified errors could allow for out-of-bounds reads and writes.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Links users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/links-2.6"

References

[ 1 ] Secunia Advisory SA33391
http://secunia.com/Advisories/33391/

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-32.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-32.xml

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