CVE-2017-1000211

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.

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00021.html

https://github.com/ThomasDickey/lynx-snapshots/commit/280a61b300a1614f6037efc0902ff7ecf17146e9

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102180

http://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/CHANGES.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3