CVE-2005-4720 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2006-02-15

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 12.7% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.6:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.7:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.12656.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

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

History

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Subscriptions

Mozilla Firefox

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-02-15T11:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T18:08:51.151Z

Reserved: 2006-02-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-4720

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-12-31T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2005-4720

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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