CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-1000211
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-11-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• lynx project lynx 2.8.9
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/CHANGES.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102180 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/ThomasDickey/lynx-snapshots/commit/280a61b300a1614f6037efc0902ff7ecf17146e9 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00021.html lists.debian.org
- http://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/CHANGES.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102180 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/ThomasDickey/lynx-snapshots/commit/280a61b300a1614f6037efc0902ff7ecf17146e9 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00021.html lists.debian.org