PT-2017-10909 · Lynx+3 · Lynx+3

Ned Williamson · Published 2017-11-17 · Updated 2021-03-15 · CVE-2017-1000211

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Lynx versions prior to 2.8.9dev.16

Description The issue is related to a use after free in the HTML parser, which can result in memory disclosure. This occurs because the HTML put string() function can append a chunk onto itself.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.8.9dev.16, update to version 2.8.9dev.16 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Use After Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-1000211

DLA-1175-1

MGASA-2017-0451

SUSE-SU-2017:3180-1

SUSE-SU-2017_3180-1

USN-4800-1

Affected Products

Linuxmint

Lynx

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 23

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-1000211 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-1000211 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/CHANGES.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000211 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0451 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0451.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-1000211 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4800-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9179 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-1000211 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-1000211 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-38165 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-4800-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:3180-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-1000211 · Vendor Advisory