Debian DLA-1175-1 : lynx-cur security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 104678

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a use-after-free vulnerability in the HTML parser of lynx-cur, a terminal-based web browser. This could have led to memory/information disclosure.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in lynx-cur version 2.8.8dev.12-2+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your lynx-cur packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected lynx, lynx-cur, and lynx-cur-wrapper packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 104678

File Name: debian_DLA-1175.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 11/20/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lynx, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lynx-cur, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lynx-cur-wrapper, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000211

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