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CVE-2017-1000211

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Date: November 17, 2017

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.3

Related Resources (9)

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000211

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102180

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-1000211

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00021.html

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-1000211

Url: https://github.com/ThomasDickey/lynx-snapshots/commit/280a61b300a1614f6037efc0902ff7ecf17146e9

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000211

Url: http://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/CHANGES.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-1000211

Severity Score

5.3

Weakness Type (CWE)

Use After Free

CWE-416

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.3
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE
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