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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.084 (94.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 94.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.084 · newest: 0.084 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 1.0.6, 1.0.7
References
- securitytracker.com/id (Exploit, vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/15015 (Exploit, vdb-entry)
- www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x19-advisory.txt (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi
- secunia.com/advisories/17071 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- security-protocols.com/modules.php (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)