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Debian Security Update Fixes Lynx HTML Tags Denial of Service Vulnerability

Title : Debian Security Update Fixes Lynx HTML Tags Denial of Service Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2006-2002
CVE ID : CVE-2004-1617
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-05-26

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Technical Description

Debian has released updated packages to address a vulnerability identified in Lynx. This flaw is due to an error when handling HTML pages containing malformed "TEXTAREA" and "COLS" tags, which could be exploited by malicious web sites to cause a vulnerable application to crash or enter an infinite loop.

ChangeLog

2006-05-26 : Initial release

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