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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2005-4134 EUVD-2005-4129GHSA-q5x9-vpfc-fjcq

Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Netscape 8.0.4 and 7.2, and K-Meleon before 0.9.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumpti…

Published Dec 9, 2005 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Netscape 8.0.4 and 7.2, and K-Meleon before 0.9.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and delayed application startup) via a web site with a large title, which is recorded in history.dat but not processed efficiently during startup. NOTE: despite initial reports, the Mozilla vendor does not believe that this issue can be used to trigger a crash or buffer overflow in Firefox. Also, it has been independently reported that Netscape 8.1 does not have this issue.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Debian

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 3.1 mozilla 2:1.7.8-1sarge5 DSA-1046-1
Debian 3.1 mozilla-firefox 1.0.4-2sarge6 DSA-1044-1
Debian 3.1 mozilla-thunderbird 1.0.2-2.sarge1.0.8 DSA-1051-1

Red Hat

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 4 firefox 1.0.7-1.4.3 RHSA-2006:0200

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

Exploit-DB 1

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

Advisories 4

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