Denial of Service Vulnerability in Tidy's ParseValue Function

CVE-2015-5523 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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