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CVE-2010-2810

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.8 Published: 2010-08-20 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the convert_to_idna function in WWW/Library/Implementation/HTParse.c in Lynx 2.8.8dev.1 through 2.8.8dev.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed URL containing a % (percent) character in the domain name.

Affected Platforms

Lynx Lynx

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References