CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-5523
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-08-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
The ParseValue function in lexer.c in tidy before 4.9.31 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving multiple whitespace characters before an empty href, which triggers a large memory allocation.
Affected configurations
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 15.04
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• apple iphone os (<= 8.2)
• apple mac os x (<= 10.6.8)
• apple watchos (<= 1.0.1)
• htacg tidy (<= 4.9.30)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00001.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00005.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3309 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/04/2 Exploit
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/13/7 Exploit
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/15/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75037 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033703 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2695-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/217#issuecomment-108565501 Exploit
- https://support.apple.com/HT205212 Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/HT205213 Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/HT205267 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00001.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00005.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3309 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/04/2 Exploit
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/13/7 Exploit
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/15/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75037 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033703 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2695-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/217#issuecomment-108565501 Exploit
- https://support.apple.com/HT205212 Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/HT205213 Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/HT205267 Third Party Advisory