CVE-2017-17497

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17497
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-17497.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-17497
Downstream
Published
2017-12-10T22:29:00.263Z
Modified
2026-03-14T09:24:48.685982Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-17497.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "5.7.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]