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Category: Fedora Local Security Checks Risk factor: High Added: 4 Dec 2008
The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory FEDORA-2008-9550 (lynx).

Lynx is a text-based Web browser. Lynx does not display any images, but it does support frames, tables, and most other HTML tags. One advantage Lynx has over graphical browsers is speed Lynx starts and
exits quickly and swiftly displays webpages.

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ChangeLog:


Update information :

* Mon Nov 10 2008 Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc redhat com> 2.8.6-17
- Fixed CVE-2008-4690 lynx: remote arbitrary command execution. via a crafted lynxcgi: URL (thoger)


Solution: Get the newest Fedora Updates Risk factor: High

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