CVE-2005-4134
Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Netscape 8.0.4 and 7.2, and K-Meleon before 0.9.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and delayed application startup) via a web site with a large title, which is recorded in history.dat but not…
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Description
Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Netscape 8.0.4 and 7.2, and K-Meleon before 0.9.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and delayed application startup) via a web site with a large title, which is recorded in history.dat but not processed efficiently during startup. NOTE: despite initial reports, the Mozilla vendor does not believe that this issue can be used to trigger a crash or buffer overflow in Firefox. Also, it has been independently reported that Netscape 8.1 does not have this issue.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 12.59% probability · 96th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- k-meleon project/k-meleon · mozilla/firefox · mozilla/mozilla suite · netscape/navigator
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2006.26/SCOSA-2006.26.txt
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060201-01-U
- http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=113404911919629&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=113405896025702&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17934Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17944Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17946Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18700
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18704
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18705
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18706
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18708
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18709
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19230
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19746
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19759
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19852
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19862
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19863
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19902
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19941
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21033
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21622
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015328
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102550-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-228526-1
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-205.htm
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1044
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1046
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1051
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.