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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.51452
Category:Conectiva Local Security Checks
Title:Conectiva Security Advisory CLA-2003:720
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory CLA-2003:720.

Lynx is a text terminal based web browser.

Ulf Harnhammar reported[1] a CRLF (Carriage Return, Line Feed)
injection vulnerability in lynx. When handling a URL supplied through
the command line, lynx does not filter out characters such as spaces,
CR, LF, etc, which allows an attacker to inject HTTP headers and
cause program misbehavior[2] by using a specially crafted URL.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has
assigned the name CVE-2002-1405 to this issue[3].

The package distributed with Conectiva Linux 9 (lynx-2.8.4-25963cl)
already contains a fix and is not vulnerable to this problem.


Solution:
The apt tool can be used to perform RPM package upgrades
by running 'apt-get update' followed by 'apt-get upgrade'

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=102978118411977&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=103003793418021&w=2
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2002-1405
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=CLA-2003:720
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/index.php?id=a&anuncio=002003

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
5.0

Cross-Ref: BugTraq ID: 5499
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2002-1405
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5499
Bugtraq: 20020819 Lynx CRLF Injection (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102978118411977&w=2
Bugtraq: 20020822 Lynx CRLF Injection, part two (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103003793418021&w=2
Caldera Security Advisory: CSSA-2002-049.0
ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-049.0.txt
Debian Security Information: DSA-210 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-210
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:023
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-029.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-030.html
http://www.trustix.net/errata/misc/2002/TSL-2002-0085-lynx-ssl.asc.txt
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9887.php
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