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Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 12:18:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: coley <coley@...re.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: Lynx


----- "Dan Rosenberg" <dan.j.rosenberg@...il.com> wrote:

> The Lynx browser is vulnerable to a heap overflow when parsing
> malformed URLs with a "%" character in the last two characters of the
> hostname.
> 
> Reference:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lynx-cur/+bug/613254
> 

Please use CVE-2010-2810 for this.

>From investigating this issue a bit, it looks like the flaw was introduced
in lynx version 2.8.8dev.1. The functionality that triggers this doesn't
exist in any of the previous versions.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB

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