CVE-2017-1000211

Lynx before 2.8.9dev.16 is vulnerable to a use after free in the HTML parser resulting in memory disclosure, because HTML_put_string() can append a chunk onto itself.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.3 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-11-17

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-416

Affected products

• Lynx (Lynx Project)

References

• http://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/CHANGES.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102180
• https://github.com/ThomasDickey/lynx-snapshots/commit/280a61b300a1614f6037efc0902ff7ecf17146e9
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00021.html