VYPR
Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 18, 2004· Updated Apr 16, 2026

CVE-2004-1617

CVE-2004-1617

Description

Lynx, lynx-ssl, and lynx-cur before 2.8.6dev.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a web page or HTML email that contains invalid HTML including (1) a TEXTAREA tag with a large COLS value and (2) a large tag name in an element that is not terminated, as demonstrated by mangleme. NOTE: a followup suggests that the relevant trigger for this issue is the large COLS value.

Affected products

16
  • cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 15 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.2_rel1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.3_dev22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.3_pre5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.3_rel1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.4_rel1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.5_dev2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.5_dev3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.5_dev4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.5_dev5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.5_dev8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

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