CVE-2015-5523 (GCVE-0-2015-5523)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-08-11 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:50
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-06-03 00:00
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