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CVE-2004-1617

Published: 18 October 2004

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.

Priority

Unknown

Status

Package Release Status
lynx
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needs triage

dapper Ignored
(end of life)
edgy Ignored
(end of life)
feisty
Released (2.8.5-2ubuntu4)