CVE-2005-4720 (GCVE-0-2005-4720)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-02-15 11:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 18:08
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
6 references
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| http://securitytracker.com/id?1015011 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15015 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x19… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303433 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/17071 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://security-protocols.com/modules.php?name=Ne… | x_refsource_MISC |
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