cve-2007-4999-00

Summary NULL pointer dereference in parsing invalid HTML
Date 2007-10-24
CVE Number CVE-2007-4999
Discovered By Jeffrey Rosen
Fixed In Release 2.2.2

Description

A remote user can cause a denial of service (crash) by sending a message with invalid HTML. It is believed that this crash can be triggered only when using HTML logging.

Mitigation

The affected function has been patched to fix the vulnerability.

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