CVE-2017-1000211

medium

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

Published: 2017-11-17

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N