Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2005-4720
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.
EPSS: 0.082 (94.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 1.0.6, 1.0.7
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)