CVE-2005-0255

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

String handling functions in Mozilla 1.7.3, Firefox 1.0, and Thunderbird before 1.0.2, such as the nsTSubstring_CharT::Replace function, do not properly check the return values of other functions that resize the string, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code by forcing an out-of-memory state that causes a reallocation to fail and return a pointer to a fixed address, which leads to heap corruption.

String handling functions in Mozilla 1.7.3, Firefox 1.0, and Thunderbird before 1.0.2, such as the nsTSubstring_CharT::Replace function, do not properly check the return values of other functions that resize the string, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code by forcing an out-of-memory state that causes a reallocation to fail and return a pointer to a fixed address, which leads to heap corruption.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Mozilla

First reported 19 years ago

2005-05-02 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-11 01:29:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox 1.0

1.0

Mozilla Mozilla 1.7.3

1.7.3

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1

0.1

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2

0.2

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3

0.3

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4

0.4

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5

0.5

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6

0.6

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7

0.7

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8

0.8

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9

0.9

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0

1.0

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