Re: [Lynx-dev] CVE-2016-9179 (invalid URL parsing with '?')

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 06:13:59PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Interesting enough, when I look at the trace, lynx dev.10 is doing this:
> 
> With lynx 2.8.9dev10-1 from Debian unstable, if I type in:
> 
> lynx 'http://address@hidden/'
> 
> Then I get the following warning that appears on screen for one second
> (easy to miss):
> 
> Alert!: User/password may appear to be a hostname: 'google.com?' (e.g, 
> 'google.com')
> 
> Then it takes me to http://www.debian.org/

yes - and I was using the trace to see if I'd gotten the right host.
The trace is (based on strace...) incorrect.  I'll fix that.

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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