Package : lynx Vulnerability : programming error Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2004-1617 BugTraq ID : 11443 Debian Bug : 296340
Michal Zalewski discovered that lynx, the popular text-mode WWW Browser, is not able to grok invalid HTML including a TEXTAREA tag with a large COLS value and a large tag name in an element that is not terminated, and loops forever trying to render the broken HTML.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.4.1b-3.4.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.5-2sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.5-2sarge2.
We recommend that you upgrade your lynx package.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given at the end of this advisory:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - --------------------------------