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Debian: CVE-2017-1000211: lynx, lynx-cur -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-1000211: lynx, lynx-cur -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/17/2017
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/25/2019
Modified
02/24/2020

Description

Lynx before 2.8.9dev.16 is vulnerable to a use after free in the HTML parser resulting in memory disclosure, because HTML_put_string() can append a chunk onto itself.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-lynx
  • debian-upgrade-lynx-cur

References

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