CVE - CVE-2015-5523

CVE-ID
CVE-2015-5523	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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.
References
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APPLE:APPLE-SA-2015-09-16-1 URL:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00001.html APPLE:APPLE-SA-2015-09-21-1 URL:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00005.html APPLE:APPLE-SA-2015-09-30-3 URL:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html BID:75037 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75037 CONFIRM:https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/217#issuecomment-108565501 CONFIRM:https://support.apple.com/HT205212 CONFIRM:https://support.apple.com/HT205213 CONFIRM:https://support.apple.com/HT205267 DEBIAN:DSA-3309 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3309 MLIST:[oss-security] 20150604 CVE Request - tidy 0.99 / tidy5 heap-buffer-overflow URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/04/2 MLIST:[oss-security] 20150713 Re: CVE Request - tidy 0.99 / tidy5 heap-buffer-overflow URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/13/7 MLIST:[oss-security] 20150714 Re: CVE Request - tidy 0.99 / tidy5 heap-buffer-overflow URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/15/3 SECTRACK:1033703 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033703 UBUNTU:USN-2695-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2695-1
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20150714	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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Assigned (20150714)
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