Mozilla 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.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-12-09T15:00:00

Updated: 2018-10-19T14:57:01

Reserved: 2005-12-09T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2005-4134

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-12-09T15:03:00.000

Modified: 2018-10-19T15:40:08.283


Link: CVE-2005-4134

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