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lynx - A text-based Web browser.

Website: http://lynx.isc.org/
License: GPL
Vendor: Scientific Linux
Description:
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.

Packages

lynx-2.8.5-28.1.el5_2.1.x86_64 [1.7 MiB] Changelog by Tomas Hoger (2008-10-26): 
- add patch for CVE-2008-4690 (rhbz#468184)
  - prompt user before executing commands from the lynxcgi: handler,
    even in the advanced user mode
  - mark all lynxcgi: URIs as untrusted in the default lynx.cfg
- add patch to prevent lynx from opening configuration files in the
  current working directory (CVE to be assigned) (rhbz#214205)

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