DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17497

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17497
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17497.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17497
Upstream
Published
2017-12-10T22:29:00.263Z
Modified
2025-11-19T01:19:05.292063Z
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

Debian:11 / tidy-html5

Package

Name
tidy-html5
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tidy-html5?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:5.6.0-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17497.json"

Debian:12 / tidy-html5

Package

Name
tidy-html5
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tidy-html5?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:5.6.0-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17497.json"

Debian:13 / tidy-html5

Package

Name
tidy-html5
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tidy-html5?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:5.6.0-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17497.json"

Debian:14 / tidy-html5

Package

Name
tidy-html5
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tidy-html5?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:5.6.0-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17497.json"