In Tidy 5.7.0, the prvTidyTidyMetaCharset function in clean.c allows attackers to cause a denial of service (Segmentation Fault), because the currentNode variable in the "children of the head" processing feature is modified in the loop without validating the new value.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-12-10T22:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:51:31.608Z

Reserved: 2017-12-10T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-17497

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-12-10T22:29:00.263

Modified: 2020-02-04T16:38:03.550

Link: CVE-2017-17497

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-12-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-17497 - Bugzilla