CVE-2004-1617 in Lynxinfo

Summary

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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Reservation

02/20/2005

Disclosure

10/18/2004

CPE

ready

CVSS

5.3

EPSS

0.03666

Activities

Very Low

Sources

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