suse · CVE-2015-5523

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:32:14 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 18:14:29 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2015-5523 severity moderate: SUSE including 20 source package names (libtidy-0_99-0-1.0.20100204cvs-25.3, libtidy-0_99-0-devel-1.0.20100204cvs-25.3, …), 58 product×package rows across 26 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4, … (26 product lines)): Fixed 58.

Description:

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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