CVE-2004-1617

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.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.5_dev8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2004-10-18 04:00

Updated : 2023-12-10 10:17


NVD link : CVE-2004-1617

Mitre link : CVE-2004-1617

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2004-1617


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Products Affected

university_of_kansas

  • lynx
CWE
CWE-20

Improper Input Validation