CVE-2004-1617

Published Feb 20, 2005 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 3.8% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1076-1 New lynx packages fix denial of service
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1077-1 New lynx-ssl packages fix denial of service
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1085-1 New lynx-cur packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2004-1611 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 8, 2024, 1:00 AM
Reserved
Feb 20, 2005, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 18, 2004, 4:00 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:08 PM