Lynx 2.8.8 dev4 heap overflow

2010.08.24

Credit: Dan Rosenberg

Risk: Medium

Local: No

Remote: Yes

CVE: CVE-2010-2810

CWE: CWE-119

CVSS Base Score: 6.8/10

Impact Subscore: 6.4/10

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6/10

Exploit range: Remote

Attack complexity: Medium

Authentication: No required

Confidentiality impact: Partial

Integrity impact: Partial

Availability impact: Partial

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

-Dan

References:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lynx-cur/+bug/613254

http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/61007

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2042

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128152412221677&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128151768510564&w=2

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