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Fedora 33: 2021-232161e4d5 Moderate: Lynx SNI Credentials Disclosure Fix

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Calendar Grey September 20, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
# Resolution for HTTP Authentication Credential Leakage via SNI in Lynx on Fedora. Comprehensive update details and procedural instructions are provided.
- fix disclosure of HTTP auth credentials via SNI data (CVE-2021-38165)

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.

- fix disclosure of HTTP auth credentials via SNI data (CVE-2021-38165)

* Tue Aug 31 2021 Kamil Dudka - 2.8.9-13

- fix disclosure of HTTP auth credentials via SNI data (CVE-2021-38165)

* Thu Jul 22 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.8.9-12

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_35_Mass_Rebuild

* Tue Jan 26 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.8.9-11

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild

* Wed Dec 30 2020 Kamil Dudka - 2.8.9-10

- remove unused build-time dependency on slang-devel (#1910966)

[ 1 ] Bug #1994998 - CVE-2021-38165 lynx: Disclosure of HTTP authentication credentials via SNI data

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1994998

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-232161e4d5' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

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

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 33
Version: 2.8.9
Release: 13.fc33
Summary: A text-based Web browser

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