{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2004-1617","details":"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.","modified":"2026-09-15T06:47:34.200702219Z","published":"2004-10-18T04:00:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2004-1617"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2004-1617"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"lynx","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/lynx?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.8.5-2sarge1.2"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"low"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2004-1617.json"}},{"package":{"name":"lynx","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/lynx?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.8.5-2sarge1.2"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"low"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2004-1617.json"}},{"package":{"name":"lynx","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/lynx?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.8.5-2sarge1.2"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"low"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2004-1617.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}