{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2004-1617", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "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." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "11443", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11443" }, { "name": "20041018 Web browsers - a mini-farce", "refsource": "BUGTRAQ", "url": "http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109811406620511&w=2" }, { "name": "DSA-1077", "refsource": "DEBIAN", "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1077" }, { "name": "1011809", "refsource": "SECTRACK", "url": "http://securitytracker.com/id?1011809" }, { "name": "20060602 Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1085-1] New lynx-cur packages fix several vulnerabilities", "refsource": "BUGTRAQ", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435689/30/4740/threaded" }, { "name": "DSA-1076", "refsource": "DEBIAN", "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1076" }, { "name": "DSA-1085", "refsource": "DEBIAN", "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1085" }, { "name": "20041018 Web browsers - a mini-farce", "refsource": "FULLDISC", "url": "http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-October/027709.html" }, { "name": "http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/mangleme/gallery/", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/mangleme/gallery/" }, { "name": "20383", "refsource": "SECUNIA", "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/20383" }, { "name": "lynx-dos(17804)", "refsource": "XF", "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17804" } ] } }