Security advisories: lynx

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Oct 18 09:06:00 GMT 2005


On Oct 17 11:02, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> Lynx contains a buffer overflow that may be exploited to execute
> arbitrary code. (CAN-2005-3120)
> 
> Solution: lynx-2.8.5 needs to be patched (URL below).
> 
> http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200510-15.xml
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108451
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~seemant/distfiles/lynx-2.8.5-CAN-2005-3120.patch.bz2

Thanks for the heads up,
Corinna

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