Executive Summary

Summary
Title elinks security update
Informations
Name DSA-2592 First vendor Publication 2012-12-28
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2012-12-28
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

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:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5.1 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity High
Cvss Expoit Score 4.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Marko Myllynen discovered that elinks, a powerful text-mode browser, incorrectly delegates user credentials during GSS-Negotiate.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.12~pre5-2+squeeze1. Since the initial Squeeze release Xulrunner needed to be updated and the version currently in the archive is incompatible with Elinks. As such, Javascript support needed to be disabled (only a small subset of typical functionality was supported anyway). It will likely be re-enabled in a later point update

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.12~pre5-9.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.12~pre5-9.

We recommend that you upgrade your elinks packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2592

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-287 Improper Authentication

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19983
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19983
Title: DSA-2592-1 elinks - programming error
Description: Marko Myllynen discovered that ELinks, a powerful text-mode browser, incorrectly delegates user credentials during GSS-Negotiate.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2592-1
CVE-2012-4545
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
 Product(s): elinks
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21127
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21127
Title: RHSA-2013:0250: elinks security update (Moderate)
Description: The http_negotiate_create_context function in protocol/http/http_negotiate.c in ELinks 0.12 before 0.12pre6, when using HTTP Negotiate or GSS-Negotiate authentication, delegates user credentials through GSSAPI, which allows remote servers to authenticate as the client via the delegated credentials.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): RHSA-2013:0250-01
CESA-2013:0250
CVE-2012-4545
 Version: 4
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
CentOS Linux 6
 Product(s): elinks
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23385
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23385
Title: DEPRECATED: ELSA-2013:0250: elinks security update (Moderate)
Description: The http_negotiate_create_context function in protocol/http/http_negotiate.c in ELinks 0.12 before 0.12pre6, when using HTTP Negotiate or GSS-Negotiate authentication, delegates user credentials through GSSAPI, which allows remote servers to authenticate as the client via the delegated credentials.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2013:0250-01
CVE-2012-4545
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 6
Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s): elinks
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23998
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23998
Title: ELSA-2013:0250: elinks security update (Moderate)
Description: The http_negotiate_create_context function in protocol/http/http_negotiate.c in ELinks 0.12 before 0.12pre6, when using HTTP Negotiate or GSS-Negotiate authentication, delegates user credentials through GSSAPI, which allows remote servers to authenticate as the client via the delegated credentials.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2013:0250-01
CVE-2012-4545
 Version: 6
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 6
Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s): elinks
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27573
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27573
Title: DEPRECATED: ELSA-2013-0250 -- elinks security update (moderate)
Description: [0.12-0.21.pre5] - do not delegate GSSAPI credentials (CVE-2012-4545)
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2013-0250
CVE-2012-4545
 Version: 4
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
Oracle Linux 6
 Product(s): elinks
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 5

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2013-09-18 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 2592-1 (elinks - programming error)
File : nvt/deb_2592_1.nasl

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-0250.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-04-20 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing a security update.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2013-075.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-02-12 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2013-0250.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-02-12 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2013-0250.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-02-12 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20130211_elinks_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-0207.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-0265.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-28 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2592.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:31:32
  • Multiple Updates
2013-09-20 17:21:20
  • Multiple Updates
2013-01-03 17:21:45
  • Multiple Updates
2013-01-03 13:21:23
  • Multiple Updates
2012-12-28 05:17:38
  • First insertion