From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Sep 25 2007 - 11:17:10 CDT

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TITLE:
ELinks Proxy CONNECT Weakness

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26956

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26956/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
From local network

SOFTWARE:
ELinks 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/12623/

DESCRIPTION:
A weakness has been reported in ELinks, which can be exploited by
malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

The content of POST requests sent to HTTPS webservers via a proxy is
sent unencrypted via the CONNECT command to the configured proxy.
This can be exploited to disclose the content of POST requests by
e.g. sniffing network traffic.

The weakness is reported in versions prior to 0.11.3.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.11.3.
http://www.elinks.cz/download.html

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Kalle Olavi Niemitalo

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/show_bug.cgi?id=937

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