PT-2015-6972
CVE-2015-5523
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Published
2015-07-16
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Updated
2024-06-15
Description by
CVSS 2.0
4.3
MediumMetricsAV: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.
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