Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2005-0592
Heap-based buffer overflow in the UTF8ToNewUnicode function for Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via invalid sequences in a UTF8 encoded string that result in a zero length value.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.039 (89.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 89.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.039 · newest: 0.039 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.1
- Mozilla — versions 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/19823 (third-party-advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-15.html (Vendor Advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Vendor Advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100043 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html (vendor-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10606 (signature, vdb-entry)