Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package tidy-html5  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1910-TIDYHTML5-658184
  • 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:19.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tidy-html5 package and not the tidy-html5 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.