CVE-2017-17497
Current Description
In Tidy 5.7.0, the prvTidyTidyMetaCharset function in clean.c allows attackers to cause a denial of service (Segmentation Fault), because the currentNode variable in the "children of the head" processing feature is modified in the loop without validating the new value.
Basic Data
| Published | December 10, 2017 |
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| Last Modified | February 04, 2020 |
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| Assigner | cve@mitre.org |
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| Data Type | CVE |
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| Data Format | MITRE |
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| Data Version | 4.0 |
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| Problem Type | CWE-119 |
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| CVE Data Version | 4.0 |
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Base Metric V2
| CVSS 2 - Version | 2.0 |
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| CVSS 2 - Vector String | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
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| CVSS 2 - Access Vector | NETWORK |
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| CVSS 2 - Access Complexity | LOW |
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| CVSS 2 - Authentication | NONE |
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| CVSS 2 - Confidentiality Impact | NONE |
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| CVSS 2 - Availability Impact | PARTIAL |
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| CVSS 2 - Base Score | 5.0 |
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| Severity | MEDIUM |
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| Exploitability Score | 10.0 |
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| Impact Score | 2.9 |
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| Obtain All Privilege | false |
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| Obtain User Privilege | false |
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| Obtain Other Privilege | false |
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Base Metric V3
No data provided.
Configurations
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OR - Configuration 1
| Cpe Version | Part | Vendor | Product | Version | Update | Edition | Language | SW Edition | Target SW | Target HW | Other | Version Start Including | Version End Including | Version Start Excluding | Version End Excluding |
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| 2.3 | Application | Htacg | Tidy | 5.7.0 | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | | | | |
Vulnerable Software List
References
| Name | Source | URL | Tags |
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| https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/656 | https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/656 | CONFIRM | Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory |
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