CVE-2015-5523
N/A
Published: August 11, 2015 at 02:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:29 AM UTC
6 products affected across 4 vendorsmacOSDebian LinuxiPhone OS
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%
Description
The ParseValue function in lexer.c in tidy before 4.9.31 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving multiple whitespace characters before an empty href, which triggers a large memory allocation.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (14)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00001.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00005.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3309Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/04/2Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/13/7Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/15/3Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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