CVE-2005-2265
50Vexday Risk Score
Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.
ssvc Attendepss 68%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDJul 13
1st PoCJul 13
metasploitJul 13
exploitation probability
68%top 1% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
2 public exploit(s)
Firefox before 1.0.5, Mozilla before 1.7.9, and Netscape 8.0.2 and 7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (access violation and crash), and possibly execute arbitrary code, by calling InstallVersion.compareTo with an object instead of a string.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 2
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References
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295854https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160202http://secunia.com/advisories/16043http://secunia.com/advisories/16044http://secunia.com/advisories/16059http://secunia.com/advisories/19823https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100008https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10397https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A417https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A781http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-252.shtmlhttp://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-810