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Secunia Advisory SA9378

Sun Linux update for lynx
Secunia Advisory SA9378
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2003-07-29
Last Update 2003-08-05
   
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Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact Manipulation of data
Where Local system
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Operating System
Sun Linux 5.x

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CVE Reference(s) CVE-2002-1405 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

Sun has issued updated packages to fix a minor, older vulnerability in lynx.

If lynx receives special characters on the command line, it may include faked headers in the HTTP request. This could possibly be abused to make lynx download from the wrong domain from a server hosting multiple domains.


Solution
This is hardly a security issue. Any script taking arguments from non trusted users and passing them to lynx should do proper checking of the arguments, as it possibly could be abused to much more dangerous things, than making lynx download something from the wrong domain.
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Original Advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert%2F55940

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