Technical Description

Gentoo has released updated packages to correct a vulnerability identified in Lynx. This flaw is due to an input validation error when processing specially crafted arguments passed to the "lynxcgi" URI handler, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by convincing a user to follow a malicious link. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2394

Affected Products

www-client/lynx versions prior to 2.8.5-r2

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=www-client/lynx-2.8.5-r2"

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2396
http://www.frsirt.com/english/reference/673

ChangeLog

2005-11-14 : Initial release

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