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Lynx, lynx-ssl, and lynx-cur before 2.8.6dev.8 allow...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Apr 29, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 30, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Lynx, lynx-ssl, and lynx-cur before 2.8.6dev.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a web page or HTML email that contains invalid HTML including (1) a TEXTAREA tag with a large COLS value and (2) a large tag name in an element that is not terminated, as demonstrated by mangleme. NOTE: a followup suggests that the relevant trigger for this issue is the large COLS value.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 18, 2004
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 29, 2022
Last updated Jan 30, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

2.677%
(91st percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2004-1617

GHSA ID

GHSA-j8fp-ff64-g7r6

Source code

No known source code

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