Vulnerability Details 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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.037
EPSS Ranking 87.2%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 5.0
Products affected by CVE-2004-1617
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cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.7
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cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8
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cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.2_rel1
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cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.3
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cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.3_dev22
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cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.3_pre5
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cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.3_rel1
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cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.4
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cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.4_rel1
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cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.5
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cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.5_dev2
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cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.5_dev3
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cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.5_dev4
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cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.5_dev5
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cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.5_dev8