CVE-2010-2810

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-08-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected products

Lynx: 2.8.8-dev.1, 2.8.8-dev.2, 2.8.8-dev.3, 2.8.8-dev.4

References

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128151768510564&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128152412221677&w=2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1642-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2042
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lynx-cur/+bug/613254
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/61007
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128151768510564&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128152412221677&w=2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1642-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2042
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lynx-cur/+bug/613254
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/61007

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