Bug 1391861 (CVE-2016-9179) - CVE-2016-9179 lynx: Invalid URL parsing of pages containing '?'
Summary: CVE-2016-9179 lynx: Invalid URL parsing of pages containing '?'
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-9179
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1391862
Blocks: 1391864
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Reported: 2016-11-04 09:24 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:59 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-11-08 06:32:56 UTC

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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-11-04 09:24:13 UTC 
It was found that Lynx doesn't parse the authority component of the URL correctly when the host name part ends with '?', and could instead be tricked into connecting to a different host.

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http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/322
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-11-04 09:25:26 UTC 
Created lynx tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1391862]
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