Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package tidy  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-TIDY-658190
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed10 Dec 2017

Introduced: 10 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17497  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tidy package and not the tidy package as distributed by Ubuntu.

In Tidy 5.7.0, the prvTidyTidyMetaCharset function in clean.c allows attackers to cause a denial of service (Segmentation Fault), because the currentNode variable in the "children of the head" processing feature is modified in the loop without validating the new value.