Improper input validation in University Of Kansas Lynx
CVE-2004-1617
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.
Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.038 (89.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 89.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.038 · newest: 0.038 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- University Of Kansas Lynx — versions 2.7, 2.8, 2.8.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/11443 (Exploit, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1077 (vendor-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435689/30/4740/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1076 (vendor-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1085 (vendor-advisory)
- lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-October/027709.html (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list)
- lcamtuf.coredump.cx/mangleme/gallery/ (Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/20383 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)