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SUSE: CVE-2017-1000211: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-1000211: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/17/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2017
Modified
06/20/2021

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)

  • suse-upgrade-lynx

References

  • SUSE-SU-2017:3180-1
  • 102180
  • CVE-2017-1000211

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