| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 43 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| lynx -- multiple vulnerabilities | 26 Oct 201600:00 | – | freebsd | |
| CVE-2016-9179 affecting package lynx 2.9.0~dev.9-5 | 12 Jan 202509:15 | – | cbl_mariner | |
| Lynx URL Redirection Vulnerability | 11 Nov 201600:00 | – | cnvd | |
| CVE-2016-9179 | 22 Dec 201621:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2016-9179 | 22 Dec 201621:00 | – | cvelist | |
| CVE-2016-9179 | 22 Dec 201621:00 | – | debiancve | |
| EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : lynx (EulerOS-SA-2020-2137) | 28 Sep 202000:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 25 : lynx (2017-c9828b259c) | 15 Feb 201700:00 | – | nessus | |
| FreeBSD : lynx -- multiple vulnerabilities (03532a19-d68e-11e6-9171-14dae9d210b8) (POODLE) | 10 Jan 201700:00 | – | nessus | |
| RHEL 5 : lynx (Unpatched Vulnerability) | 11 May 202400:00 | – | nessus |
| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| bugzilla | www.bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi |
| cve | www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi |
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2017-330.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(97713);
script_version("3.4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/12/30");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-9179");
script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : lynx (openSUSE-2017-330)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"This update for lynx fixes the following issues :
- CVE-2016-9179: It was found that Lynx doesn't parse the
authority component of the URL correctly when the host
name part ends with '?', and could instead be tricked
into connecting to a different host. (bsc#1008642)
This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1008642");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected lynx packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2016-9179");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/03/11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/03/14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lynx");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lynx-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lynx-debugsource");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2025 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
if (release !~ "^(SUSE42\.1|SUSE42\.2)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "42.1 / 42.2", release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch);
flag = 0;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"lynx-2.8.7-5.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"lynx-debuginfo-2.8.7-5.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"lynx-debugsource-2.8.7-5.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"lynx-2.8.7-6.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"lynx-debuginfo-2.8.7-6.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"lynx-debugsource-2.8.7-6.1") ) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "lynx / lynx-debuginfo / lynx-debugsource");
}
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