PT-2009-2691 · Elinks+1 · Elinks+1

Jakub Wilk + 1 · Published 2009-09-14 · Updated 2017-09-29 · CVE-2008-7224

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ELinks versions prior to 0.11.4rc0

Description The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the entity cache of ELinks, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by crashing the system via a crafted link.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.11.4rc0, update to version 0.11.4rc0 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-7224

DSA-1902-1

RHSA-2009:1471

RHSA-2009_1471

Affected Products

Elinks

Red Hat

References · 12

• 🔥 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=380347 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-7224 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-7224 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-7224 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-7224 · Security Note
• http://osvdb.org/41949 · Note
• http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/elinks-users/2008-February/001604.html · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-2027 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10126 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235411 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1471 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-7224 · Note