Debian DSA-1076-1 : lynx - programming error

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22618

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Michal Zalewski discovered that lynx, the popular text-mode WWW Browser, 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.

Solution

Upgrade the lynx package.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.4.1b-3.4.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.5-2sarge2.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22618

File Name: debian_DSA-1076.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lynx, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/26/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/18/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-1617

BID: 11443

CWE: 20

DSA: 1076

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