DSA-1077-1 lynx-ssl -- programming error

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1077-1 lynx-ssl -- programming error

Date Reported:

26 May 2006

Affected Packages:

lynx-ssl

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.

More information:

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. The same code is present in lynx-ssl.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.4.1b-3.3.

The stable distribution (sarge) does not contain lynx-ssl packages anymore.

The unstable distribution (sid) does not contain lynx-ssl packages anymore.

We recommend that you upgrade your lynx-ssl package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-ssl/lynx-ssl_2.8.4.1b-3.3.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-ssl/lynx-ssl_2.8.4.1b-3.3.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-ssl/lynx-ssl_2.8.4.1b.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-ssl/lynx-ssl_2.8.4.1b-3.3_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-ssl/lynx-ssl_2.8.4.1b-3.3_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-ssl/lynx-ssl_2.8.4.1b-3.3_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-ssl/lynx-ssl_2.8.4.1b-3.3_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-ssl/lynx-ssl_2.8.4.1b-3.3_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-ssl/lynx-ssl_2.8.4.1b-3.3_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-ssl/lynx-ssl_2.8.4.1b-3.3_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-ssl/lynx-ssl_2.8.4.1b-3.3_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-ssl/lynx-ssl_2.8.4.1b-3.3_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-ssl/lynx-ssl_2.8.4.1b-3.3_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx-ssl/lynx-ssl_2.8.4.1b-3.3_sparc.deb

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