CVE-2017-17497

Publication date

2017-12-10 22:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

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.