Upstream information

CVE-2008-4690 at MITRE

Description

lynx 2.8.6dev.15 and earlier, when advanced mode is enabled and lynx is configured as a URL handler, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted lynxcgi: URL, a related issue to CVE-2005-2929. NOTE: this might only be a vulnerability in limited deployments that have defined a lynxcgi: handler.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	10
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 439149 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2009:002, published Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:00:00 +0000

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4	`lynx >= 2.8.6-143.19`	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA lynx-2.8.6-143.19
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`lynx >= 2.8.8rel.2-4.13`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10329

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 06:33:09 2013
CVE page last modified: Wed Sep 11 00:10:50 2024