USN-4800-1

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USN-4800-1

Summary: lynx vulnerabilities

Details: It was discovered that Lynx incorrectly handled certain URLs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information or other unspecified impact. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-9179) It was discovered that Lynx incorrectly handled certain HTML files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-1000211) Thorsten Glaser discovered that Lynx mishandles the userinfo subcomponents of a URI. An attacker monitoring the network could discover cleartext credentials because they may appear in SNI data. (CVE-2021-38165)

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4800-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9179, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-1000211, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-38165