Ubuntu: USN-4800-1 (CVE-2017-1000211): Lynx vulnerabilities
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
11/17/2017
03/29/2023
03/22/2023
11/27/2024
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)
- ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lynx
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