CVE-2005-0255 | BDVDB-2026-8650 Detail
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.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_mozilla_firefox.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9111
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-18.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100040
- http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=200&type=vulnerabilities
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-277.html
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-337.html
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.