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CVE-2004-1617

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-20 Input Validation
Publication date:
18/10/2004
Last modified:
03/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.2_rel1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.3_dev22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.3_pre5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.3_rel1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.4_rel1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.5_dev2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.5_dev3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.5_dev4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.5_dev5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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