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Re: Security advisories: lynx
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:06:08 +0200
- Subject: Re: Security advisories: lynx
- References: <4353CAFA.9030409@users.sourceforge.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Oct 17 11:02, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> Lynx contains a buffer overflow that may be exploited to execute
> arbitrary code. (CAN-2005-3120)
>
> Solution: lynx-2.8.5 needs to be patched (URL below).
>
> http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200510-15.xml
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108451
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~seemant/distfiles/lynx-2.8.5-CAN-2005-3120.patch.bz2
Thanks for the heads up,
Corinna
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