CVE-2017-1000211
MEDIUM5.3EPSS 0.21%lynx-cur - security update
Published: 11/17/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/lynxfrom 0, < 2.8.9dev16-1
- Debian/lynx-curfrom 0, < 2.8.8dev.12-2+deb7u2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |