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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T01:00:36.960Z

Reserved: 2005-02-20T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2004-1617

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2004-10-18T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2004-1617

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