[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: lynx-2.8.6-18.fc10
updates at fedoraproject.org
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Wed Dec 3 01:19:13 UTC 2008
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-9952
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Name : lynx
Product : Fedora 10
Version : 2.8.6
Release : 18.fc10
URL : http://lynx.isc.org/
Summary : A text-based Web browser
Description :
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 webpages.
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ChangeLog:
* Fri Nov 7 2008 Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc at redhat.com> - 2.8.6-18
- Fixed CVE-2008-4690 lynx: remote arbitrary command execution.
via a crafted lynxcgi: URL (thoger)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #468184 - CVE-2008-4690 lynx: remote arbitrary command execution via a crafted lynxcgi: URL
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468184
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update lynx' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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