Security advisory

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-1000211",
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    "title": "CVE-2017-1000211",
    "summary": "Lynx before 2.8.9dev.16 is vulnerable to a use after free in the HTML parser resulting in memory disclosure, because HTML_put_string() can append a chunk onto itself.",
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      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00021.html",
        "https://github.com/ThomasDickey/lynx-snapshots/commit/280a61b300a1614f6037efc0902ff7ecf17146e9"
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  "published_at": "2017-11-17T15:29:00.31+00:00"
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