GCVE Workshop - 22 September 2026 (14:00-18:00), Luxembourg Before The Vulnopticon Conference - Registration

CVE-2004-1639 (GCVE-0-2004-1639)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-02-20 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 01:00
VLAI
Summary
Mozilla Firefox before 0.10, Mozilla 5.0, and Gecko 20040913 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash or memory consumption) via a large binary file with a .html extension.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/… mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCH
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109886388528179&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Date Public
2004-10-26 00:00
Show details on NVD website
To clipboard 

{
  "containers": {
    "adp": [
      {
        "providerMetadata": {
          "dateUpdated": "2024-08-08T01:00:36.763Z",
          "orgId": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
          "shortName": "CVE"
        },
        "references": [
          {
            "name": "20041026 Rendering large binary file as HTML makes Mozilla Firefox stop responding or crash",
            "tags": [
              "mailing-list",
              "x_refsource_VULNWATCH",
              "x_transferred"
            ],
            "url": "http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2004-q4/0017.html"
          },
          {
            "name": "20041026 Rendering large binary file as HTML makes Mozilla Firefox stop responding",
            "tags": [
              "mailing-list",
              "x_refsource_BUGTRAQ",
              "x_transferred"
            ],
            "url": "http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq\u0026m=109886388528179\u0026w=2"
          },
          {
            "name": "mozilla-html-dos(17839)",
            "tags": [
              "vdb-entry",
              "x_refsource_XF",
              "x_transferred"
            ],
            "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17839"
          }
        ],
        "title": "CVE Program Container"
      }
    ],
    "cna": {
      "affected": [
        {
          "product": "n/a",
          "vendor": "n/a",
          "versions": [
            {
              "status": "affected",
              "version": "n/a"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "datePublic": "2004-10-26T00:00:00.000Z",
      "descriptions": [
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "value": "Mozilla Firefox before 0.10, Mozilla 5.0, and Gecko 20040913 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash or memory consumption) via a large binary file with a .html extension."
        }
      ],
      "problemTypes": [
        {
          "descriptions": [
            {
              "description": "n/a",
              "lang": "en",
              "type": "text"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "providerMetadata": {
        "dateUpdated": "2017-07-10T14:57:01.000Z",
        "orgId": "8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca",
        "shortName": "mitre"
      },
      "references": [
        {
          "name": "20041026 Rendering large binary file as HTML makes Mozilla Firefox stop responding or crash",
          "tags": [
            "mailing-list",
            "x_refsource_VULNWATCH"
          ],
          "url": "http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2004-q4/0017.html"
        },
        {
          "name": "20041026 Rendering large binary file as HTML makes Mozilla Firefox stop responding",
          "tags": [
            "mailing-list",
            "x_refsource_BUGTRAQ"
          ],
          "url": "http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq\u0026m=109886388528179\u0026w=2"
        },
        {
          "name": "mozilla-html-dos(17839)",
          "tags": [
            "vdb-entry",
            "x_refsource_XF"
          ],
          "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17839"
        }
      ],
      "x_legacyV4Record": {
        "CVE_data_meta": {
          "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org",
          "ID": "CVE-2004-1639",
          "STATE": "PUBLIC"
        },
        "affects": {
          "vendor": {
            "vendor_data": [
              {
                "product": {
                  "product_data": [
                    {
                      "product_name": "n/a",
                      "version": {
                        "version_data": [
                          {
                            "version_value": "n/a"
                          }
                        ]
                      }
                    }
                  ]
                },
                "vendor_name": "n/a"
              }
            ]
          }
        },
        "data_format": "MITRE",
        "data_type": "CVE",
        "data_version": "4.0",
        "description": {
          "description_data": [
            {
              "lang": "eng",
              "value": "Mozilla Firefox before 0.10, Mozilla 5.0, and Gecko 20040913 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash or memory consumption) via a large binary file with a .html extension."
            }
          ]
        },
        "problemtype": {
          "problemtype_data": [
            {
              "description": [
                {
                  "lang": "eng",
                  "value": "n/a"
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        "references": {
          "reference_data": [
            {
              "name": "20041026 Rendering large binary file as HTML makes Mozilla Firefox stop responding or crash",
              "refsource": "VULNWATCH",
              "url": "http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2004-q4/0017.html"
            },
            {
              "name": "20041026 Rendering large binary file as HTML makes Mozilla Firefox stop responding",
              "refsource": "BUGTRAQ",
              "url": "http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq\u0026m=109886388528179\u0026w=2"
            },
            {
              "name": "mozilla-html-dos(17839)",
              "refsource": "XF",
              "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17839"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "cveMetadata": {
    "assignerOrgId": "8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca",
    "assignerShortName": "mitre",
    "cveId": "CVE-2004-1639",
    "datePublished": "2005-02-20T05:00:00.000Z",
    "dateReserved": "2005-02-20T00:00:00.000Z",
    "dateUpdated": "2024-08-08T01:00:36.763Z",
    "state": "PUBLISHED"
  },
  "dataType": "CVE_RECORD",
  "dataVersion": "5.1",
  "vulnerability-lookup:meta": {
    "epss": {
      "cve": "CVE-2004-1639",
      "date": "2026-09-19",
      "epss": "0.01735",
      "percentile": "0.76642"
    },
    "nvd": {
      "cve": {
        "configurations": [
          {
            "nodes": [
              {
                "cpeMatch": [
                  {
                    "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "matchCriteriaId": "2B982CDA-3EDB-44A9-950B-F9F670F3E5F7",
                    "versionEndIncluding": "0.10",
                    "vulnerable": false
                  },
                  {
                    "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:gecko:2004-09-13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "matchCriteriaId": "4D263A38-8667-4A0A-9377-55EC69A7B9D6",
                    "vulnerable": false
                  },
                  {
                    "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:mozilla:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "matchCriteriaId": "35FB74FC-4614-4325-9249-0DC887FD6C34",
                    "vulnerable": false
                  }
                ],
                "negate": false,
                "operator": "OR"
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "cveTags": [],
        "descriptions": [
          {
            "lang": "en",
            "value": "Mozilla Firefox before 0.10, Mozilla 5.0, and Gecko 20040913 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash or memory consumption) via a large binary file with a .html extension."
          }
        ],
        "id": "CVE-2004-1639",
        "lastModified": "2026-04-16T00:27:16.627",
        "metrics": {
          "cvssMetricV2": [
            {
              "acInsufInfo": false,
              "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM",
              "cvssData": {
                "accessComplexity": "LOW",
                "accessVector": "NETWORK",
                "authentication": "NONE",
                "availabilityImpact": "PARTIAL",
                "baseScore": 5.0,
                "confidentialityImpact": "NONE",
                "integrityImpact": "NONE",
                "vectorString": "AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P",
                "version": "2.0"
              },
              "exploitabilityScore": 10.0,
              "impactScore": 2.9,
              "obtainAllPrivilege": false,
              "obtainOtherPrivilege": false,
              "obtainUserPrivilege": false,
              "source": "nvd@nist.gov",
              "type": "Primary",
              "userInteractionRequired": false
            }
          ]
        },
        "published": "2004-10-26T04:00:00.000",
        "references": [
          {
            "source": "cve@mitre.org",
            "tags": [
              "Exploit",
              "Vendor Advisory"
            ],
            "url": "http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2004-q4/0017.html"
          },
          {
            "source": "cve@mitre.org",
            "url": "http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq\u0026m=109886388528179\u0026w=2"
          },
          {
            "source": "cve@mitre.org",
            "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17839"
          },
          {
            "source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
            "tags": [
              "Exploit",
              "Vendor Advisory"
            ],
            "url": "http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2004-q4/0017.html"
          },
          {
            "source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
            "url": "http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq\u0026m=109886388528179\u0026w=2"
          },
          {
            "source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
            "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17839"
          }
        ],
        "sourceIdentifier": "cve@mitre.org",
        "vulnStatus": "Modified",
        "weaknesses": [
          {
            "description": [
              {
                "lang": "en",
                "value": "NVD-CWE-Other"
              }
            ],
            "source": "nvd@nist.gov",
            "type": "Primary"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}



Log in or create an account to share your comment.




Tags
Taxonomy of the tags.





Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.