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Debian DSA-1077-1 : lynx-ssl - programming error

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22619

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Michal Zalewski discovered that lynx, the popular text-mode WWW Browser, is not able to grok invalid HTML including a TEXTAREA tag with a large COLS value and a large tag name in an element that is not terminated, and loops forever trying to render the broken HTML. The same code is present in lynx-ssl.

Solution

Upgrade the lynx-ssl package.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.4.1b-3.3.

The stable distribution (sarge) does not contain lynx-ssl packages anymore.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=296340

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1077

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22619

File Name: debian_DSA-1077.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lynx-ssl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/26/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/18/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-1617

BID: 11443

CWE: 20

DSA: 1077