Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1076-1 lynx -- programming error
- Date Reported:
- 26 May 2006
- Affected Packages:
- lynx
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 296340.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 11443.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-1617. - More information:
-
Michal Zalewski discovered that lynx, the popular text-mode WWW Browser, is not able to grok invalid HTML including a TEXTAREA tag with a large COLS value and a large tag name in an element that is not terminated, and loops forever trying to render the broken HTML.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.4.1b-3.4.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.5-2sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.5-2sarge2.
We recommend that you upgrade your lynx package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.