PT-2015-6971 · Html Tidy+3 · Tidy+3

Fernando Muñoz · Published 2015-07-16 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-5522

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions tidy versions prior to 4.9.31

Description The issue is related to a heap-based buffer overflow in the ParseValue function in lexer.c. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving a command character in an href.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.9.31, update to version 4.9.31 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2636

CVE-2015-5522

DLA-273-1

DSA-3309-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10210-1

SUSE-SU-2015:1513-1

SUSE-SU-2015:1525-1

SUSE-SU-2015_1513-1

SUSE-SU-2015_1525-1

USN-2695-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

Tidy

References · 32

• 🔥 https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/217 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/15/3 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/13/7 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/04/2 · Exploit
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5522 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5522 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00005.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10210-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5522 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2015:1513-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5523 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3309-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3309 · Vendor Advisory