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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…
Medium5.0EPSS 3.8%
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- Updated
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.8% · top 10% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (11)
- 11443 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20041018 Web browsers - a mini-farce (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- DSA-1077 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 1011809 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20060602 Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1085-1] New lynx-cur packages fix several vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- DSA-1076 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- DSA-1085 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 20041018 Web browsers - a mini-farce (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/mangleme/gallery/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20383 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- lynx-dos(17804) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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