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Slackware 7.0: Lynx 2.8.3rel1 Critical Advisory for Code Execution

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Calendar Grey May 19, 2000
Dist Slackware Esm H88
A new Lynx package is available in the Slackware-current tree. Users of Slackware 7.0 and -current a
Versions of Lynx prior to 2.8.3pre.5 contained numerous security holes which could permit a malicious server to execute arbitrary code on the user's system.

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