Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : lynx (MDKSA-2005:186-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20057

Synopsis

The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

Ulf Harnhammar discovered a remote buffer overflow in lynx versions 2.8.2 through 2.8.5.

When Lynx connects to an NNTP server to fetch information about the available articles in a newsgroup, it will call a function called HTrjis() with the information from certain article headers. The function adds missing ESC characters to certain data, to support Asian character sets. However, it does not check if it writes outside of the char array buf, and that causes a remote stack-based buffer overflow, with full control over EIP, EBX, EBP, ESI and EDI.

Two attack vectors to make a victim visit a URL to a dangerous news server are: (a) *redirecting scripts*, where the victim visits some web page and it redirects automatically to a malicious URL, and (b)
*links in web pages*, where the victim visits some web page and selects a link on the page to a malicious URL. Attack vector (b) is helped by the fact that Lynx does not automatically display where links lead to, unlike many graphical web browsers.

The updated packages have been patched to address this issue.

Update :

The previous patchset had a bug in the patches themselves, which was uncovered by Klaus Singvogel of Novell/SUSE in auditing crashes on some architectures.

Solution

Update the affected lynx package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20057

File Name: mandrake_MDKSA-2005-186.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Family: Mandriva Local Security Checks

Published: 10/19/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lynx, cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:10.1, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2006, x-cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:le2005

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Mandrake/release, Host/Mandrake/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 10/26/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2665, CVE-2005-3120

MDKSA: 2005:186-1

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