CVE-2004-1617

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CVE-2004-1617

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Upstream information

CVE-2004-1617 at MITRE

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.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 179609 [RESOLVED / WORKSFORME]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:12:59 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 7 12:45:29 2022