CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2414

2.6 LOW Published 2005-08-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-08-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.6 LOW — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Race condition in the xpcom library, as used by web browsers such as Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, and Galeon, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large HTML file that loads a DOM call from within nested DIV tags, which causes part of the currently rendering page and referenced objects to be deleted.

Affected configurations

• xpcom xpcom

References