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

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Here's the change which I just applied, which seems to work.

At least fixes the redirect target for me.

> If there's no further changes needed, I'll release that as dev.11

I though wonder if the "User/password may appear to be a
hostname" alert is now still needed for that case.

                Regards, Axel
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