DSA-1085-1 lynx-cur -- several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1085-1 lynx-cur -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

01 Jun 2006

Affected Packages:

lynx-cur

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 296340.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 11443.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-1617, CVE-2005-3120.

More information:

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 Härnhammar 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.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur-wrapper_2.8.5-2.5woody1_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.5-2.5woody1_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur-wrapper_2.8.6-9sarge1_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx-cur_2.8.6-9sarge1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.