Bug 630677 – CVE-2010-2810 Lynx: Heap-based buffer overflow by processing URLs with % (percent) character in the domain name

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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...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2010-2810

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Reported:	2010-09-06 13:02 EDT by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified:	2016-03-04 07:48 EST (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2010-09-06 13:09:27 EDT
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-09-06 13:02:23 EDT

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 13:04:38 EDT

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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