Technical Description

Gentoo has released updated packages to correct a vulnerability identified in Lynx. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error in the "HTrjis()" [HTMIME.c] function that does not properly handle specially crafted NNTP article headers, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable system by convincing a user to connect to a malicious Web site or NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) server. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2113

Affected Products

www-client/lynx versions prior to 2.8.5-r1

Solution

Upgrade the affected package :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=www-client/lynx-2.8.5-r1"

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2120
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-15.xml

ChangeLog

2005-10-17 : Initial release

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