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Bug 694016 - <www-client/links-2.20.2: DNS requests potentially sent outside Tor network even when Links connected to Tor
Summary: <www-client/links-2.20.2: DNS requests potentially sent outside Tor network e...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: Normal trivial (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL:
Whiteboard: B4 [noglsa]
Keywords:
: 705328 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2019-09-11 05:37 UTC by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
Modified: 2020-03-25 19:07 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

See Also:
Package list:
www-client/links-2.20.2
Runtime testing required: ---
stable-bot: sanity-check+


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Description Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2019-09-11 05:37:30 UTC
www-client/links-2.19 was released on 2019-04-04.
www-client/links-2.20 was released on 2019-08-28.
www-client/links-2.20.1 was released on 2019-09-04.

ChangeLog: http://links.twibright.com/download/ChangeLog

One of entries for release 2.20:
"""
Mon Aug 26 18:21:43 CEST 2019 mikulas:

	Security bug fixed: when links was connected to tor, it would send real
	dns requests outside the tor network when the displayed page contains
	<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="http://host.domain/">.

	This bug is present in links-2.15 to links-2.19.

	Found by Shi Tian <shitian@cock.li>
"""
Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2019-10-26 21:16:02 UTC
@ maintainer(s): Please bump to >=2.20!
Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2020-01-13 05:13:58 UTC
*** Bug 705328 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2020-02-17 19:24:02 UTC
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=c7a3f6c8c3ef3cd7063a02908dbe96faf89612d3

commit c7a3f6c8c3ef3cd7063a02908dbe96faf89612d3
Author:     Ben Kohler <bkohler@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2020-02-17 19:23:02 +0000
Commit:     Ben Kohler <bkohler@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2020-02-17 19:23:50 +0000

    www-client/links: bump to 2.20.2
    
    Add a few new flags for optional deps
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/657996
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/694016
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.89, Repoman-2.3.20
    Signed-off-by: Ben Kohler <bkohler@gentoo.org>

 www-client/links/Manifest            |   1 +
 www-client/links/links-2.20.2.ebuild | 170 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 www-client/links/metadata.xml        |   7 ++
 3 files changed, 178 insertions(+)
Comment 4 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2020-03-19 04:07:14 UTC
@maintainer(s), please advise if ready for stabilisation, or call for it yourself
Comment 5 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2020-03-21 16:19:27 UTC
s390 stable
Comment 6 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2020-03-21 16:28:07 UTC
sparc stable
Comment 7 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2020-03-21 16:47:34 UTC
amd64 stable
Comment 8 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2020-03-22 10:31:53 UTC
ppc64 stable
Comment 9 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2020-03-22 10:33:26 UTC
ppc stable
Comment 10 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2020-03-22 10:37:49 UTC
x86 stable
Comment 11 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev 2020-03-22 13:01:21 UTC
arm64 stable
Comment 12 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2020-03-22 14:06:33 UTC
ia64 stable
Comment 13 Rolf Eike Beer archtester 2020-03-23 21:19:42 UTC
hppa stable
Comment 14 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2020-03-25 08:12:50 UTC
arm stable.

Maintainer(s), please cleanup.
Security, please vote.
Comment 15 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2020-03-25 09:13:17 UTC
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=998fa01bec870ac488e278245481542d9375a94d

commit 998fa01bec870ac488e278245481542d9375a94d
Author:     Patrice Clement <monsieurp@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2020-03-25 09:11:42 +0000
Commit:     Patrice Clement <monsieurp@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2020-03-25 09:12:56 +0000

    www-client/links: clean up vulnerable versions.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/694016
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.89, Repoman-2.3.20
    Signed-off-by: Patrice Clement <monsieurp@gentoo.org>

 www-client/links/Manifest             |   4 -
 www-client/links/links-2.14-r1.ebuild | 152 ----------------------------------
 www-client/links/links-2.16.ebuild    | 152 ----------------------------------
 www-client/links/links-2.17.ebuild    | 152 ----------------------------------
 www-client/links/links-2.18.ebuild    | 152 ----------------------------------
 5 files changed, 612 deletions(-)
Comment 16 Patrice Clement gentoo-dev 2020-03-25 09:14:59 UTC
(In reply to Agostino Sarubbo from comment #14)
> Maintainer(s), please cleanup.

Done.
Comment 17 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2020-03-25 19:07:51 UTC
GLSA Vote: No

Repository is clean, all done!