5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.027 Low
EPSS
Percentile
90.3%
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.