PT-2015-6972 · Html Tidy+3 · Tidy+3

Fernando Muñoz · Published 2015-07-16 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-5523

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

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

Description The issue 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. This occurs due to a problem in the ParseValue function in lexer.c.

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-2015-5523

DLA-273-1

DSA-3309-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10210-1

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#issuecomment-108565501 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/13/7 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/04/2 · Exploit
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00005.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5522 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10210-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5523 · 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
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2015:1525-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2695-1 · Vendor Advisory