CVE-2006-5925

Summary

CVECVE-2006-5925
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-11-15 19:07:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-17 21:45:00 UTC
DescriptionLinks web browser 1.00pre12 and Elinks 0.9.2 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Elinks Elinks 0.9.2 All All All
Application Elinks Elinks 0.9.2 All All All
Application Links Links 1.00pre12 All All All
Application Links Links 1.00pre12 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
2007-0005 TRUSTIX www.trustix.org
Mandriva update for links - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Security Announcement SUSE www.novell.com
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Links SMB URL Parsing Bug Lets Remote Users Upload/Download Files - SecurityTracker SECTRACK securitytracker.com
Trustix update for bind and ed - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1240-1 links2 DEBIAN www.debian.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1226-1 links DEBIAN www.debian.org
Debian update for links2 - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Debian update for elinks - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Gentoo update for elinks - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Red Hat update for elinks - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
403 Forbidden CONFIRM bugzilla.elinks.cz
Gentoo update for links - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Links "smb" Protocol File Upload/Download Vulnerability - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Debian update for links - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
'[Full-disclosure] Links smbclient command execution' - MARC FULLDISC marc.info
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
ELinks SMB URL Parsing Bug Lets Remote Users Upload/Download Files - SecurityTracker SECTRACK securitytracker.com
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Links, ELinks 'smbclient' Remote Command Execution Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
ELinks "smb" Protocol File Upload/Download Vulnerability - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Advisories - Mandriva Linux MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- ELinks: Arbitrary Samba command execution GENTOO www.gentoo.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1228-1 elinks DEBIAN www.debian.org
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Links: Arbitrary Samba command execution GENTOO security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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