Updated lynx package fixes security vulnerability

2017-12-1702:20:04

Gentoo Foundation

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CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS3

5.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

52.6%

JSON

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. (CVE-2017-1000211)

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Mageia5noarchlynx< 2.8.8-1.rel2.3.2lynx-2.8.8-1.rel2.3.2.mga5
Mageia6noarchlynx< 2.8.8-1.rel2.6.1lynx-2.8.8-1.rel2.6.1.mga6