Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title Links: Denial of Service
Informations
Name GLSA-201402-11 First vendor Publication 2014-02-07
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2014-02-07
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 : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

An integer overflow in Links might allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

Links is a web browser which runs in both graphics and text modes.

Description

An integer overflow vulnerability was found in the parsing of HTML tables in the Links web browser when running in graphical mode.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition.

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-2.8-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2013-6050 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6050

Availability

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

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201402-11.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201402-11.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19419
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19419
Title: DSA-2807-1 links2 - integer overflow
Description: Mikulas Patocka discovered an integer overflow in the parsing of HTML tables in the Links web browser. This can only be exploited when running Links in graphical mode.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2807-1
CVE-2013-6050
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/Linux 7
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7
 Product(s): links2
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 93

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-12-30 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-16572.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-10 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201402-11.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-12-02 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2807.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:38:09
  • Multiple Updates
2014-02-08 00:19:13
  • First insertion