CVE-2005-0255

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.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9111

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100040

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-337.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-277.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_mozilla_firefox.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-18.html

http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=200&type=vulnerabilities

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/19823

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3