Published: 22/12/2016 Updated: 23/12/2016

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 445

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

lynx: It was found that Lynx doesn't parse the authority component of the URL correctly when the host name part ends with '?', and could instead be tricked into connecting to a different host.

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Debian Bug report logs - #843258 lynx: CVE-2016-9179: invalid URL parsing with '?' Package: src:lynx; Maintainer for src:lynx is Debian Lynx Packaging Team <pkg-lynx-maint@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 15:27:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: conf ...

lynx: It was found that Lynx doesn't parse the authority component of the URL correctly when the host name part ends with '?', and could instead be tricked into connecting to a different host ...

CWE-20 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94215 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/04/1 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=843258 https://nvd.nist.gov https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9179

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