PT-2014-9116 · Elinks · Elinks

Published 2014-01-21 · Updated 2014-01-21

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions elinks versions prior to 0.12-pre6

Description The issue arises when verifying SSL certificates, as elinks fails to warn the user if the hostname of the certificate does not match the hostname of the website.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.12-pre6, update to version 0.12-pre6 to fix the issue.

Related Identifiers

MGASA-2014-0014

Affected Products

Elinks

References · 4

• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0014.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0014 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-October/119053.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11460 · Note