CVE-2005-0255
published 2005-05-02CVE-2005-0255: 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…
PriorityP422medium5CVSS 2.0
AVNACLAuNCNINAP
EPSS
4.29%
90.1th percentile
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.
Affected
12 ranges
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| mozilla | firefox | — | — |
| mozilla | mozilla | — | — |
| mozilla | thunderbird | — | — |
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CVSS provenance
nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
vendor_redhat5.0MEDIUM
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Ubuntu
Ubuntu 4.10 update for Firefox vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2005-07-28
CVE-2004-1156 Ubuntu 4.10 update for Firefox vulnerabilities
Title: Ubuntu 4.10 update for Firefox vulnerabilities
Summary: Ubuntu 4.10 update for Firefox vulnerabilities
USN-149-1 fixed some vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary
Hedgehog) version of Firefox. The version shipped with Ubuntu 4.10
(Warty Warthog) is also vulnerable to these flaws, so it needs to be
upgraded as well. Please see
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-149-1
for the original advisory.
This update also fixes several older vulnerabilities; Some of them
could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with full user privileges
if the user visited a malicious web site. (MFSA-2005-01 to
MFSA-2005-44; please see the following web site for details:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html)
Instructions: In general, a standard sy
Red Hat
security flaw
vendor_redhat·2005-02-28·CVSS 5.0
CVE-2005-0255 [MEDIUM] security flaw
security flaw
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.
GHSA
GHSA-xg8v-4hxj-rcfg: String handling functions in Mozilla 1
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-01
CVE-2005-0255 [MEDIUM] GHSA-xg8v-4hxj-rcfg: String handling functions in Mozilla 1
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.
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
http://secunia.com/advisories/19823http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xmlhttp://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xmlhttp://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=200&type=vulnerabilitieshttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-18.htmlhttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_mozilla_firefox.htmlhttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.htmlhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.htmlhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-277.htmlhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-337.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100040https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9111http://secunia.com/advisories/19823http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xmlhttp://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xmlhttp://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=200&type=vulnerabilitieshttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-18.htmlhttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_mozilla_firefox.htmlhttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.htmlhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.htmlhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-277.htmlhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-337.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100040https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9111
2005-05-02
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