Bug 172973

Summary:	CVE-2005-2929 lynx arbitrary command execution
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	lynx	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	4	Keywords:	Security
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-11-11 18:30:40 UTC

lynx arbitrary command execution

It is possible for a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands as
the user running lynx by using specially crafted  lynxcgi: URL.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=full-disclosure&m=113172754719215&w=2


This issue also affects FC3

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2005-11-14 18:05:54 UTC

From User-Agent: XML-RPC

lynx-2.8.5-23.2 has been pushed for FC4, which should resolve this issue.  If these problems are still present in this version, then please make note of it in this bug report.