CVE-2004-1617 Information

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.

Reference

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/mangleme/gallery/ http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-October/027709.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109811406620511&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/20383 http://securitytracker.com/id?1011809 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1076 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1077 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1085 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435689/30/4740/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11443 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17804