CVE-2005-4720

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 8.4%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDFeb 15

1st PoCOct 5

exploitation probability

8.4%top 6% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 and earlier on Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client crash) via an IFRAME element with a large value of the WIDTH attribute, which triggers a problem related to representation of floating-point numbers, leading to an infinite loop of widget resizes and a corresponding large number of function calls on the stack.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/26325

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References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303433 http://secunia.com/advisories/17071 http://security-protocols.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2978 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015011 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15015 http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x19-advisory.txt