What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2000-0209

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2000-02-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in Lynx 2.x allows remote attackers to crash Lynx and possibly execute commands via a long URL in a malicious web page.

Affected products

• University Of Kansas Lynx: 2.7, 2.8, 2.8.3_dev22

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1012
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1012

Get alerted when CVE-2000-0209 or the next vulnerability affects your stack