Ubuntu Security Notice 851-1 - Teemu Salmela discovered that Elinks did not properly validate input when processing smb:// URLs. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website and had smbclient installed, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. Jakub Wilk discovered a logic error in Elinks, leading to a buffer overflow. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.
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OpenPKG Security Advisory - The Links web browser versions below 2.1pre26 suffer from an arbitrary code execution vulnerability.
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Debian Security Advisory 1240-1 - Teemu Salmela discovered that the links2 character mode web browser performs insufficient sanitizing of smb:// URIs, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary shell commands.
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Debian Security Advisory 1228-1 - Teemu Salmela discovered that the elinks character mode web browser performs insufficient sanitizing of smb:// URIs, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary shell commands.
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Debian Security Advisory 1226-1 - Teemu Salmela discovered that the links character mode web browser performs insufficient sanitizing of smb:// URIs, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary shell commands.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2006-216 - The links web browser with smbclient installed allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in an smb:// URI, as demonstrated by using PUT and GET statements.
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