{ "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" : "20041018 Web browsers - a mini-farce", "refsource" : "BUGTRAQ", "url" : "http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109811406620511&w=2" }, { "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" : "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" : "DSA-1077", "refsource" : "DEBIAN", "url" : "http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1077" }, { "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" : "11443", "refsource" : "BID", "url" : "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11443" }, { "name" : "1011809", "refsource" : "SECTRACK", "url" : "http://securitytracker.com/id?1011809" }, { "name" : "20383", "refsource" : "SECUNIA", "url" : "http://secunia.com/advisories/20383" }, { "name" : "lynx-dos(17804)", "refsource" : "XF", "url" : "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17804" } ] } }