CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-1617

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2004-10-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-10-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

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.

Affected configurations

• university of kansas lynx 2.7 • university of kansas lynx 2.8 • university of kansas lynx 2.8.1 • university of kansas lynx 2.8.2 rel1 • university of kansas lynx 2.8.3 • university of kansas lynx 2.8.3 dev22 • university of kansas lynx 2.8.3 pre5 • university of kansas lynx 2.8.3 rel1 • university of kansas lynx 2.8.4 • university of kansas lynx 2.8.4 rel1 • university of kansas lynx 2.8.5 • university of kansas lynx 2.8.5 dev2 • university of kansas lynx 2.8.5 dev3 • university of kansas lynx 2.8.5 dev4 • university of kansas lynx 2.8.5 dev5 • university of kansas lynx 2.8.5 dev8

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References