CVE-2004-1617 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2004-1617

Lynx, lynx-ssl, and lynx-cur before 2.8.6dev.8 allow remote attackers to...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

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Affected Vendor

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Affected Software

lynx
Vulnerable Versions:
2.7, 2.8, 2.8.1, 2.8.2_rel1, 2.8.3, 2.8.3_dev22, 2.8.3_pre5, 2.8.3_rel1, 2.8.4, 2.8.4_rel1, 2.8.5, 2.8.5_dev2, 2.8.5_dev3, 2.8.5_dev4, 2.8.5_dev5, 2.8.5_dev8

Timeline

Official Publish: February 20th, 2005
Last Modified: August 8th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.