The ParseValue function in lexer.c in tidy before 4.9.31 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving multiple whitespace characters before an empty href, which triggers a large memory allocation.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2015-08-11T14:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T06:50:02.823Z

Reserved: 2015-07-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-5523

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-08-11T14:59:15.430

Modified: 2016-12-08T03:10:07.347

Link: CVE-2015-5523

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-06-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-5523 - Bugzilla