6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Fernando MuĂąoz discovered that invalid HTML input passed to tidy, an
HTML syntax checker and reformatter, could trigger a buffer overflow.
This could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash)
or potentially execute arbitrary code.
Geoff McLane also discovered that a similar issue could trigger an
integer overflow, leading to a memory allocation of 4GB. This could
allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service by saturating the
target’s memory.
For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed
in version 20091223cvs-1.2+deb7u1.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 20091223cvs-1.4+deb8u1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your tidy packages.
CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
---|---|---|---|
tidy | eq | 20091223cvs-1.4 |