DSA-1076-1 lynx -- programming error

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1076-1 lynx -- programming error

Date Reported:

26 May 2006

Affected Packages:

lynx

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.

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.

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

We recommend that you upgrade your lynx package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.4.1b-3.4_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_sparc.deb

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