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FKIE_CVE-2002-1405

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2003-02-19 05:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 21:59
Severity
Summary
CRLF injection vulnerability in Lynx 2.8.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject false HTTP headers into an HTTP request that is provided on the command line, via a URL containing encoded carriage return, line feed, and other whitespace characters.
References
cve@mitre.orgftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-049.0.txt
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102978118411977&w=2
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103003793418021&w=2
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-210Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9887.phpPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:023
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-029.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-030.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5499
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.trustix.net/errata/misc/2002/TSL-2002-0085-lynx-ssl.asc.txt
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-049.0.txt
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102978118411977&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103003793418021&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-210Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9887.phpPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:023
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-029.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-030.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5499
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.trustix.net/errata/misc/2002/TSL-2002-0085-lynx-ssl.asc.txt
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
elinks elinks 0.2.4
elinks elinks 0.3.2
links links 0.96
university_of_kansas lynx 2.8.2_rel1
university_of_kansas lynx 2.8.3
university_of_kansas lynx 2.8.3_rel1
university_of_kansas lynx 2.8.4
university_of_kansas lynx 2.8.4_rel1
university_of_kansas lynx 2.8.5_dev8
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