Published: 11/08/2015 Updated: 08/12/2016

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

VMScore: 605

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ParseValue function in lexer.c in tidy prior to 4.9.31 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving a command character in an href.

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Debian Bug report logs - #792571 tidy: CVE-2015-5522 and CVE-2015-5523 Package: src:tidy; Maintainer for src:tidy is Tidy HTML5 <tidy-html5@packagesdebianorg>; Reported by: Alessandro Ghedini <ghedo@debianorg> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 11:33:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: jessie, patch, security, sid, squeeze, stre ...

HTML Tidy could be made to crash or run programs if it processed specially crafted data ...

Fernando Muñoz discovered that invalid HTML input passed to tidy, an HTML syntax checker and reformatter, could trigger a buffer overflow This could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or potentially execute arbitrary code Geoff McLane also discovered that a similar issue could trigger an integer overflow, leading to a me ...

CWE-119 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/04/2 https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/217 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2695-1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/15/3 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3309 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/13/7 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00001.html https://support.apple.com/HT205212 https://support.apple.com/HT205267 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00005.html https://support.apple.com/HT205213 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75037 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033703 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=792571 https://usn.ubuntu.com/2695-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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