CVE-2010-2810 (GCVE-0-2010-2810)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2010-08-20 17:00
Modified
2024-08-07 02:46
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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