CVE-2015-5523

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Summary

CVECVE-2015-5523
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-08-11 14:59:00 UTC
Updated2016-12-08 03:10:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Apple Iphone Os All All All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X All All All All
Operating System Apple Watchos All All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Htacg Tidy All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
APPLE-SA-2015-09-16-1 iOS 9 APPLE lists.apple.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Apple OS X Multiple Flaws Let Remote and Local Users Execute Arbitrary Code, Obtain Potentially Sensitive Information, and Deny Service and Let Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
APPLE-SA-2015-09-30-3 OS X El Capitan 10.11 APPLE lists.apple.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
About the security content of watchOS 2 - Apple Support CONFIRM support.apple.com Third Party Advisory
oss-security - Re: CVE Request - tidy 0.99 / tidy5 heap-buffer-overflow MLIST www.openwall.com
oss-security - CVE Request - tidy 0.99 / tidy5 heap-buffer-overflow MLIST www.openwall.com Exploit
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3309-1 tidy DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
USN-2695-1: HTML Tidy vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
tidy heap-buffer-overflow · Issue #217 · htacg/tidy-html5 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Exploit
oss-security - Re: CVE Request - tidy 0.99 / tidy5 heap-buffer-overflow MLIST www.openwall.com Exploit
About the security content of iOS 9 - Apple Support CONFIRM support.apple.com Third Party Advisory
Tidy 'tmbstr.c' Heap Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
About the security content of OS X El Capitan v10.11 - Apple Support CONFIRM support.apple.com Third Party Advisory
APPLE-SA-2015-09-21-1 watchOS 2 APPLE lists.apple.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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