CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-2810
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-08-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the convert_to_idna function in WWW/Library/Implementation/HTParse.c in Lynx 2.8.8dev.1 through 2.8.8dev.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed URL containing a % (percent) character in the domain name.
Affected configurations
• lynx lynx 2.8.8
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128151768510564&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128152412221677&w=2 marc.info
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1642-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2042 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lynx-cur/+bug/613254 bugs.launchpad.net
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/61007 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128151768510564&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128152412221677&w=2 marc.info
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1642-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2042 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lynx-cur/+bug/613254 bugs.launchpad.net
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/61007 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com