CVE-2000-0209: University Of Kansas Lynx

High severity, CVSS 7.6. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in Lynx 2.x allows remote attackers to crash Lynx and possibly execute commands via a long URL in a malicious web page.

Affected products

• University Of Kansas Lynx: version 2.7 only; version 2.8 only; version 2.8.3_dev22 only

Published 2000-02-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.