CVE-2005-4134

Summary

CVECVE-2005-4134
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-12-09 15:03:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionMozilla 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application K-meleon Project K-meleon 0.7 All All All
Application K-meleon Project K-meleon 0.7_service_pack_1 All All All
Application K-meleon Project K-meleon 0.8 All All All
Application K-meleon Project K-meleon 0.8.1 All All All
Application K-meleon Project K-meleon 0.8.2 All All All
Application K-meleon Project K-meleon All All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Mozilla Suite All All All All
Application Netscape Navigator 7.1 All All All
Application Netscape Navigator 7.2 All All All
Application Netscape Navigator All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

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Debian update for mozilla-thunderbird - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
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ASA-2006-205 (SUN 102502, 102513, 102514, 102519, 102550, 102556, 102557, 102582, 102588, 102589, 102593) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.avaya.com
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