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.
References
Link | Resource |
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http://secunia.com/advisories/17071 | Patch Vendor Advisory |
http://security-protocols.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2978 | Exploit Vendor Advisory |
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015011 | Exploit |
http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x19-advisory.txt | Exploit Vendor Advisory |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15015 | Exploit |
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303433 |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2022-10-03T16:22:45
Updated: 2022-10-03T16:22:45
Reserved: 2022-10-03T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2005-4720
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2005-12-31T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2008-09-05T20:57:37.970
Link: CVE-2005-4720
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