Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55655
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu USN-206-1 (lynx)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to lynx announced via advisory USN-206-1. A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) The following packages are affected: lynx Ulf Harnhammar discovered a remote vulnerability in Lynx when connecting to a news server (NNTP). The function that added missing escape chararacters to article headers did not check the size of the target buffer. Specially crafted news entries could trigger a buffer overflow, which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running lynx. In order to exploit this, the user is not even required to actively visit a news site with Lynx since a malicious HTML page could automatically redirect to an nntp:// URL with malicious news items. Solution: The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 2.8.5-1ubuntu1.1 (for Ubuntu 4.10), 2.8.5-2ubuntu0.5.04 (for Ubuntu 5.04), or 2.8.5-2ubuntu0.5.10 (for Ubuntu 5.10). In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-206-1 Risk factor : High CVSS Score: 7.5
Cross-Ref:	BugTraq ID: 15117 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-3120 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15117 Bugtraq: 20060602 Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1085-1] New lynx-cur packages fix several vulnerabilities (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435689/30/4740/threaded Debian Security Information: DSA-1085 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1085 Debian Security Information: DSA-874 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-874 Debian Security Information: DSA-876 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-876 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419763/100/0/threaded http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-October/038019.html http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-15.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:186 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170253 http://www.openpkg.org/security/OpenPKG-SA-2005.026-lynx.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9257 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-803.html SCO Security Bulletin: SCOSA-2005.47 ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.47/SCOSA-2005.47.txt SCO Security Bulletin: SCOSA-2006.7 ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.7/SCOSA-2006.7.txt http://securitytracker.com/id?1015065 http://secunia.com/advisories/17150 http://secunia.com/advisories/17216 http://secunia.com/advisories/17230 http://secunia.com/advisories/17231 http://secunia.com/advisories/17238 http://secunia.com/advisories/17248 http://secunia.com/advisories/17340 http://secunia.com/advisories/17360 http://secunia.com/advisories/17444 http://secunia.com/advisories/17445 http://secunia.com/advisories/17480 http://secunia.com/advisories/18376 http://secunia.com/advisories/18584 http://secunia.com/advisories/20383 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2005&m=slackware-security.423056 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2005:025 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_25_sr.html http://lists.trustix.org/pipermail/tsl-announce/2005-October/000354.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/206-1/
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