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.
Published: 2015-08-11
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: 4.3% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-273-1 tidy security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3309-1 tidy security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-5478 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2695-1 HTML Tidy vulnerabilities
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Debian Debian Linux
Htacg Tidy
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T06:50:02.823Z

Reserved: 2015-07-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-5523

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Status : Modified

Published: 2015-08-11T14:59:15.430

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2015-5523

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-06-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-5523 - Bugzilla

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