CVE-2005-0255 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-0255 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 67168 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 74445 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2005:016, published Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2006:022, published Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 00:58:52 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:11:34 2023