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CVE-2005-4720

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.

Published

2005-12-31T05:00:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	mozilla	firefox	1.0.6	Yes
Application	mozilla	firefox	1.0.7	Yes

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/17071 Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://security-protocols.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2978 Exploit, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015011 Exploit ([email protected])
http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x19-advisory.txt Exploit, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15015 Exploit ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303433 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/17071 Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://security-protocols.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2978 Exploit, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015011 Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x19-advisory.txt Exploit, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15015 Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303433 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)