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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-1617

Original release date:10/18/2004

Last revised:09/10/2008

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

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

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:5.0 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

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External Source: XF

Name: lynx-dos(17804)

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17804

External Source: BID

Name: 11443

Type: Advisory; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11443

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060602 Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1085-1] New lynx-cur packages fix several vulnerabilities

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/435689/30/4740/threaded

External Source: DEBIAN