usn-2695-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2015-07-29 18:24
Modified
2026-04-22 07:36
Summary
tidy vulnerabilities
Details

Fernando Muñoz discovered that HTML Tidy incorrectly handled memory. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing specially crafted data, applications linked against HTML Tidy could be made to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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  "affected": [
    {
      "database_specific": {
        "cves_map": {
          "cves": [
            {
              "id": "CVE-2015-5522",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "medium",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "id": "CVE-2015-5523",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "low",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
        }
      },
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "libtidy-0.99-0",
            "binary_version": "20091223cvs-1.2ubuntu1.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "tidy",
            "binary_version": "20091223cvs-1.2ubuntu1.1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "tidy",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/tidy@20091223cvs-1.2ubuntu1.1?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "20091223cvs-1.2ubuntu1.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "20091223cvs-1.2",
        "20091223cvs-1.2ubuntu1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "Fernando Mu\u00f1oz discovered that HTML Tidy incorrectly handled memory. If a\nuser or automated system were tricked into processing specially crafted\ndata, applications linked against HTML Tidy could be made to crash, leading\nto a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.\n",
  "id": "USN-2695-1",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:36:32Z",
  "published": "2015-07-29T18:24:15Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2695-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5522"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5523"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "summary": "tidy vulnerabilities",
  "upstream": [
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5522",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5523"
  ]
}



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