Use After Free Affecting lynx-cur package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.73% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-LYNXCUR-266877
  • published17 Nov 2017
  • disclosed17 Nov 2017

Introduced: 17 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-1000211  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:8 lynx-cur.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream lynx-cur package and not the lynx-cur package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.