PT-2016-7680 · Lynx+3 · Lynx+3

Published 2016-12-22 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-9179

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Lynx (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to incorrect parsing of the authority component of a URL when the host name part ends with '?'. This could allow Lynx to be tricked into connecting to a different host.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-9179

DLA-719-1

MGASA-2017-0052

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11033-1

SUSE-SU-2017:0599-1

SUSE-SU-2017_0599-1

USN-4800-1

Affected Products

Linuxmint

Lynx

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 30

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9179 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9179 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9179 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0052.html · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-1000211 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1000211 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9179 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-38165 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2022-00255 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-38165 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9179 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0052 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9179 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4800-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:0599-1 · Vendor Advisory