PT-2013-1061 · Links2+1 · Links2+1

Mikulas Patocka · Published 2013-12-06 · Updated 2013-12-09 · CVE-2013-6050

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Links versions prior to 2.8 links2 (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to an integer overflow in Links, which can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted HTML tables. Multiple vulnerabilities in the links2 package may lead to disruption of protected information availability, and exploitation can be done remotely.

Recommendations For Links versions prior to 2.8, update to version 2.8 or later to resolve the issue. For links2, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

BDU:2015-01462

CVE-2013-6050

DSA-2807-1

MGASA-2013-0364

Affected Products

Links

Links2

References · 15

• http://debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2807 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6050 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-6050 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-6050 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2013-0364 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-01462 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-6050 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0364.html · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6050 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6050 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-6050 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-6050 · Security Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11855 · Note
• http://debian.org/security/dsa-2807 · Note
• http://links.twibright.com/download/ChangeLog · Note