CVE-2005-4720

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 and earlier on Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client crash) via an IFRAME element with a large value of the WIDTH attribute, which triggers a problem related to representation of floating-point numbers, leading to an infinite loop of widget resizes and a corresponding large number of function calls on the stack.

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 and earlier on Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client crash) via an IFRAME element with a large value of the WIDTH attribute, which triggers a problem related to representation of floating-point numbers, leading to an infinite loop of widget resizes and a corresponding large number of function calls on the stack.

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 Firefox

First reported 19 years ago

2005-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:57:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6

1.0.6

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7

1.0.7

References

17071

Patch, Vendor Advisory

http://security-protocols.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2978

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

1015011

Exploit

15015

Exploit

http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x19-advisory.txt

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303433

Stay updated

ExploitPedia is constantly evolving. Sign up to receive a notification when we release additional functionality.

Get in touch

If you'd like to report a bug or have any suggestions for improvements then please do get in touch with us using this form. We will get back to you as soon as we can.