Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1085-1 lynx-cur -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 01 Jun 2006
- Affected Packages:
- lynx-cur
- 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, CVE-2005-3120. - More information:
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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in lynx, the popular text-mode WWW browser. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project identifies the following vulnerabilities:
- CVE-2004-1617
Michal Zalewski discovered that lynx 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.
- CVE-2005-3120
Ulf Härnhammar discovered a buffer overflow that can be remotely exploited. During the handling of Asian characters when connecting to an NNTP server lynx can be tricked to write past the boundary of a buffer which can lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.8.5-2.5woody1.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 2.8.6-9sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your lynx-cur package.
- CVE-2004-1617
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur-wrapper_2.8.5-2.5woody1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur-wrapper_2.8.6-9sarge1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.