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)
- Comments