PT-2017-14808 · Html Tidy · Tidy

Yngweio · Published 2017-12-10 · Updated 2020-02-04 · CVE-2017-17497

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Tidy version 5.7.0

Description The issue allows attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a Segmentation Fault. This occurs because the currentNode variable is modified in a loop without validating its new value during the "children of the head" processing feature in the prvTidyTidyMetaCharset function.

Recommendations For Tidy version 5.7.0, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-17497

Affected Products

Tidy

References · 5

• https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/656 · Patch
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17497 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17497 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17497 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-17497 · Vendor Advisory