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CVE-2017-1000211

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-11-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Lynx before 2.8.9dev.16 is vulnerable to a use after free in the HTML parser resulting in memory disclosure, because HTML_put_string() can append a chunk onto itself.

Affected products

• Lynx Project Lynx: 2.8.9-dev15

References

• http://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/CHANGES.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102180
• https://github.com/ThomasDickey/lynx-snapshots/commit/280a61b300a1614f6037efc0902ff7ecf17146e9
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00021.html
• http://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/CHANGES.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102180
• https://github.com/ThomasDickey/lynx-snapshots/commit/280a61b300a1614f6037efc0902ff7ecf17146e9
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00021.html

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