-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory #2002-0085 Package name: lynx-ssl Summary: HTTP headers injection Date: 2002-12-19 Affected versions: TSL 1.1, 1.2, 1.5 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package 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. Lynx's advantage over graphical browsers is its speed: Lynx starts and exits quickly and swiftly when displaying Web pages. This SSL patch package for Lynx provides the ability to make use of SSL over HTTP for secure access to web sites (HTTPS) and over NNTP for secure access to news servers (SNEWS). SSL is handled transparently, allowing users to continue accessing web sites and news services from within Lynx through the same interface for both secure and standard transfers. Problem description: Due to insufficient checking for illegal characters, the Lynx-ssl could be tricked into sending additional HTTP headers in a request. Action: We recommend that all systems with this package installed be upgraded. Please note that if you do not need the functionality provided by this package, you may want to remove it from your system. Location: All TSL updates are available from <URI:http://www.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/updates/> <URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/updates/> About Trustix Secure Linux: Trustix Secure Linux is a small Linux distribution for servers. With focus on security and stability, the system is painlessly kept safe and up to date from day one using swup, the automated software updater. Automatic updates: Users of the SWUP tool can enjoy having updates automatically installed using 'swup --upgrade'. Get SWUP from: <URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/software/swup/> Public testing: These packages have been available for public testing for some time. If you want to contribute by testing the various packages in the testing tree, please feel free to share your findings on the tsl-discuss mailinglist. The testing tree is located at <URI:http://www.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/testing/> <URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/testing/> Questions? Check out our mailing lists: <URI:http://www.trustix.net/support/> Verification: This advisory along with all TSL packages are signed with the TSL sign key. This key is available from: <URI:http://www.trustix.net/TSL-GPG-KEY> The advisory itself is available from the errata pages at <URI:http://www.trustix.net/errata/trustix-1.2/> and <URI:http://www.trustix.net/errata/trustix-1.5/> or directly at <URI:http://www.trustix.net/errata/misc/2002/TSL-2002-0085-lynx-ssl.asc.txt> MD5sums of the packages: - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- b797d18c88060df90ce54e9fb48e1bf4 ./1.1/RPMS/lynx-ssl-2.8.4-1tr.i586.rpm 581dfbd59e6f47f721b1ea6a365c5c4e ./1.1/SRPMS/lynx-ssl-2.8.4-1tr.src.rpm abf719e183bdec2fcc5d6314e22fa785 ./1.2/RPMS/lynx-ssl-2.8.4-1tr.i586.rpm 581dfbd59e6f47f721b1ea6a365c5c4e ./1.2/SRPMS/lynx-ssl-2.8.4-1tr.src.rpm b9a901ce8b48c6fd77ca996c6f998540 ./1.5/RPMS/lynx-ssl-2.8.4-1tr.i586.rpm 581dfbd59e6f47f721b1ea6a365c5c4e ./1.5/SRPMS/lynx-ssl-2.8.4-1tr.src.rpm - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trustix Security Team -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+AhWjwRTcg4BxxS0RApNzAKCE+AYuRCSVXG4FMYHk4ZN0zWHGJwCgiVt8 DHk4vdCiHJuwa2fuZ+e2hsw= =zJG2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
