CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-4720
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-12-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox 1.0.6
• mozilla firefox 1.0.7
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17071 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://security-protocols.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2978 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015011 Exploit
- http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x19-advisory.txt Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15015 Exploit
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303433 bugzilla.mozilla.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17071 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://security-protocols.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2978 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015011 Exploit
- http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x19-advisory.txt Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15015 Exploit
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303433 bugzilla.mozilla.org