Bug 630677 (CVE-2010-2810) - CVE-2010-2810 Lynx: Heap-based buffer overflow by processing URLs with % (percent) character in the domain name
Summary: CVE-2010-2810 Lynx: Heap-based buffer overflow by processing URLs with % (per...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2010-2810
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2010-09-06 17:02 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:39 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-09-06 17:09:27 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-09-06 17:02:23 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2010-2810 to
the following vulnerability:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the convert_to_idna function in 
WWW/Library/Implementation/HTParse.c in Lynx 2.8.8dev.1 through 
2.8.8dev.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service 
(application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via 
a malformed URL containing a % (percent) character in the domain 
name. 

References:
  [1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2010-2810
  [2] http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128151768510564&w=2
  [3] http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128152412221677&w=2
  [4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lynx-cur/+bug/613254
  [5] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2042
  [6] http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/61007
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-09-06 17:04:38 UTC 
This issue did NOT affect the versions of the lynx package, as shipped
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.

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This issue did NOT affect the versions of the lynx package, as shipped
with Fedora release of 12 and 13.
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