CVE

Id
10045  
CVE No.
CVE-2004-1617  
Status
Candidate  
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.  
Phase
Assigned (20050220)  
Votes
None (candidate not yet proposed)  
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