CVE-2015-5523 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2015-5523 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 5.03% · 89.7th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

5.03%

89.7th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	tidy	0, 20091223cvs-1.2, 20091223cvs-1.2ubuntu1

Timeline

Jul 16, 2015 CVE Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5523 third-party-advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/04/2 third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2695-1 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5523 third-party-advisory

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