CVE-2004-1617

Name	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-1076-1, DSA-1077-1
Debian Bugs	296340, 384725

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
lynx (PTS)	stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch	2.8.9dev11-1+deb9u1	fixed
	buster (security), buster, buster (lts)	2.8.9rel.1-3+deb10u1	fixed
	bullseye (security), bullseye	2.9.0dev.6-3~deb11u1	fixed
	bookworm	2.9.0dev.12-1	fixed
	sid, trixie	2.9.2-1	fixed
lynx-cur (PTS)	jessie, jessie (lts)	2.8.9dev1-2+deb8u2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
lynx	source	woody	2.8.4.1b-3.4		DSA-1076-1
lynx	source	sarge	2.8.5-2sarge2		DSA-1076-1
lynx	source	(unstable)	2.8.5-2sarge1.2	low		296340, 384725
lynx-cur	source	(unstable)	2.8.6-6	low
lynx-ssl	source	woody	1:2.8.4.1b-3.3		DSA-1077-1
lynx-ssl	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)