CVE-2015-5523

Publication date 16 July 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

The 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.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
tidy	15.04 vivid	Fixed 20091223cvs-1.4ubuntu0.1
	14.10 utopic	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 20091223cvs-1.2ubuntu1.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 20091223cvs-1ubuntu2.1

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Notes

mdeslaur

same fix as CVE-2015-5522

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2695-1
HTML Tidy vulnerabilities
29 July 2015

Other references

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/04/2
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5523