Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-1617

Title: Lynx multiple infinite loop DoS

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2004-1617.

CWE Category CWE-20
Published Date Oct 18, 2004
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
3.75%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-1617: 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.

Impacted Vendors

U
university_of_kansas 1
L
lynx_project 1
I
invisible-island 1

Reference Links

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/mangleme/gallery/ http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-October/027709.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109811406620511&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/20383 http://securitytracker.com/id?1011809 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1076 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1077 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1085 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435689/30/4740/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11443 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17804 http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/mangleme/gallery/ http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-October/027709.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109811406620511&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/20383 http://securitytracker.com/id?1011809 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1076 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1077 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1085 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435689/30/4740/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11443 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17804
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2004-1617 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.