CVE-2005-0255
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…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (4.29%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 4.29% probability · 91th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox · mozilla/mozilla · mozilla/thunderbird
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=200&type=vulnerabilitiesPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-18.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_mozilla_firefox.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-277.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-337.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100040
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9111
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=200&type=vulnerabilitiesPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-18.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_mozilla_firefox.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-277.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-337.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100040
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9111
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.