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Medium
CVE-2005-2265
Firefox before 1.0.5, Mozilla before 1.7.9, and Netscape 8.0.2 and...
Vulnerability Description
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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-810
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html
- http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-252.shtml
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-50.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160202
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-587.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16059
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16044
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1075
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-601.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10397
- http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/netscape-multiple-issues.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_45_mozilla.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14242
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295854
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-586.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16043
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A417
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A781
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100008
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Vulnerable Versions:
0.8, 0.9, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.10, 0.10.1, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.6, 1.7, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3, 1.7.5, 1.7.6, 1.7.7, 1.7.8
Timeline
Official Publish:
July 13th, 2005
Last Modified:
August 7th, 2024
Added to House:
July 18th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.