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