CVE-2004-1617 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in Lynx via malicious HTML with large COLS values, requiring user interaction to view the page.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2004-1617?
CVE-2004-1617 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 20 Feb 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-1617?
It affects 1 product.
Products include University of Kansas Lynx.
How do I fix CVE-2004-1617?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2004-1617 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-1617 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2004-1617, DSA-1076-1, DSA-1077-1, GHSA-j8fp-ff64-g7r6.