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USN-1642-1: Lynx vulnerabilities

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USN-1642-1: Lynx vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/20/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the convert_to_idna function in WWW/Library/Implementation/HTParse.c in Lynx 2.8.8dev.1 through 2.8.8dev.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed URL containing a % (percent) character in the domain name.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-lynx-cur

References

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