| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'lynx-cur' package(s) announced via the DSA-1085-1 advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in lynx, the popular text-mode WWW browser. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project identifies the following vulnerabilities:
CVE-2004-1617
Michal Zalewski discovered that lynx 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.
CVE-2005-3120
Ulf Harnhammar discovered a buffer overflow that can be remotely exploited. During the handling of Asian characters when connecting to an NNTP server lynx can be tricked to write past the boundary of a buffer which can lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.8.5-2.5woody1.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 2.8.6-9sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your lynx-cur package.
Affected Software/OS:
'lynx-cur' package(s) on Debian 3.0, Debian 3.1.
Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).
CVSS Score:
7.5
CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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