CVE-2017-17497

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    CVE-2017-17497

    Published: 10 Dec 2017Last Modified: 14 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    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: https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/656

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