CVE - CVE-2005-0255

CVE-ID
CVE-2005-0255	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
String handling functions in Mozilla 1.7.3, Firefox 1.0, and Thunderbird before 1.0.2, such as the nsTSubstring_CharT::Replace function, do not properly check the return values of other functions that resize the string, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code by forcing an out-of-memory state that causes a reallocation to fail and return a pointer to a fixed address, which leads to heap corruption.
References
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BID:12659 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659 CONFIRM:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-18.html GENTOO:GLSA-200503-10 URL:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml GENTOO:GLSA-200503-30 URL:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml IDEFENSE:20050228 Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Browser Out Of Memory Heap Corruption Design Error URL:http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=200&type=vulnerabilities OVAL:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100040 URL:https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100040 OVAL:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9111 URL:https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9111 REDHAT:RHSA-2005:176 URL:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html REDHAT:RHSA-2005:277 URL:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-277.html REDHAT:RHSA-2005:337 URL:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-337.html SECUNIA:19823 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/19823 SUSE:SUSE-SA:2005:016 URL:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_mozilla_firefox.html SUSE:SUSE-SA:2006:022 URL:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20050209	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20050209)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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