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Fedora 26 Lynx: Security Update, Memory Disclosure Fixed

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Calendar Grey December 26, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Lynx security patch for Fedora 26 resolves memory leak vulnerabilities with the recent upstream beta. Critical security enhancement.
- update to the latest upstream pre-release (fixes CVE-2017-1000211)

Summary

Lynx is a text-based Web browser. Lynx does not display any images,

but it does support frames, tables, and most other HTML tags. One

advantage Lynx has over graphical browsers is speed; Lynx starts and

exits quickly and swiftly displays web pages.

- update to the latest upstream pre-release (fixes CVE-2017-1000211)

[ 1 ] Bug #1522617 - CVE-2017-1000211 lynx: Use after free in HTML.c:HTML_put_string() can lead to memory disclosure

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1522617

su -c 'dnf upgrade lynx' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Severity
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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 2.8.9
Release: 0.20.dev16.fc26
Summary: A text-based Web browser

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