Known Vulnerabilities for Lynx by University Of Kansas

Listed below are 8 of the newest known vulnerabilities associated with "Lynx" by "University Of Kansas".

These CVEs are retrieved based on exact matches on listed software, hardware, and vendor information (CPE data) as well as a keyword search to ensure the newest vulnerabilities with no officially listed software information are still displayed.

Data on known vulnerable versions is also displayed based on information from known CPEs

Known Vulnerabilities

CVE Shortened Description Severity Publish Date Last Modified
CVE-2005-3120 Stack-based buffer overflow in the HTrjis function in Lynx 2.8.6 and earlier allows remote NNTP servers to execute arbitrary ... 9.8 - CRITICAL 2005-10-17 2024-02-02
CVE-2005-2929 Lynx 2.8.5, and other versions before 2.8.6dev.15, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via (1) lynxcgi:, (2... 7.5 - HIGH 2005-11-18 2018-10-19
CVE-2004-1617 Lynx, lynx-ssl, and lynx-cur before 2.8.6dev.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a web ... 5 - MEDIUM 2004-10-18 2018-10-19
CVE-2002-1405 CRLF injection vulnerability in Lynx 2.8.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject false HTTP headers into an HTTP requ... 5 - MEDIUM 2003-02-19 2016-10-18
CVE-2000-0209 Buffer overflow in Lynx 2.x allows remote attackers to crash Lynx and possibly execute commands via a long URL in a malicious... 7.6 - HIGH 2000-02-27 2008-09-10
CVE-1999-1549 Lynx 2.x does not properly distinguish between internal and external HTML, which may allow a local attacker to read a "secure... 5 - MEDIUM 1999-11-16 2016-10-18
CVE-1999-0817 Lynx WWW client allows a remote attacker to specify command-line parameters which Lynx uses when calling external programs to... 10 - HIGH 1999-09-15 2022-08-17
CVE-1999-0371 Lynx allows a local user to overwrite sensitive files through /tmp symlinks. 1.2 - LOW 1999-02-11 2022-08-17
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