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CVE-2005-0255 (GCVE-0-2005-0255)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-02-28 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 21:05

Summary

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.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

13 references

URL	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/19823	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def…	vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def…	vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?i…	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-20050…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-277.html	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-20050…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-337.html	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT

Date Public

2005-02-28 00:00

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FKIE_CVE-2005-0255

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2005-05-02 04:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:10

Severity

Summary

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
cve@mitre.org	http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml	Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml	Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=200&type=vulnerabilities	Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-18.html	Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_mozilla_firefox.html	Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
cve@mitre.org	http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html
cve@mitre.org	http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-277.html	Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-337.html	Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659
cve@mitre.org	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100040
cve@mitre.org	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9111
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml	Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml	Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=200&type=vulnerabilities	Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-18.html	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_mozilla_firefox.html	Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-277.html	Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-337.html	Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100040
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9111

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
mozilla	firefox	1.0
mozilla	mozilla	1.7.3
mozilla	thunderbird	0.1
mozilla	thunderbird	0.2
mozilla	thunderbird	0.3
mozilla	thunderbird	0.4
mozilla	thunderbird	0.5
mozilla	thunderbird	0.6
mozilla	thunderbird	0.7
mozilla	thunderbird	0.8
mozilla	thunderbird	0.9
mozilla	thunderbird	1.0

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GHSA-XG8V-4HXJ-RCFG

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-01 01:48 – Updated: 2022-05-01 01:48

Details

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2005-0255"
  ],
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    "github_reviewed": false,
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  "id": "GHSA-xg8v-4hxj-rcfg",
  "modified": "2022-05-01T01:48:03Z",
  "published": "2022-05-01T01:48:03Z",
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}

GSD-2005-0255

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:20

Details

Aliases

CVE-2005-0255

Aliases

CVE-2005-0255

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    "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.",
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RHSA-2005:176

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2005-03-01 19:01 - Updated: 2026-06-25 10:32

Summary

Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

Severity

Critical

Scope

16 vulnerabilities in this advisory, including CVE-2005-0255.

CVE-2005-0255

Fixed: 18 products

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:176

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RHSA-2005:337

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2005-03-23 19:26 - Updated: 2026-06-25 10:32

Summary

Red Hat Security Advisory: thunderbird security update

Severity

Critical

Scope

2 vulnerabilities in this advisory, including CVE-2005-0255.

CVE-2005-0255

Fixed: 32 products

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:337

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CVE-2005-0255 (GCVE-0-2005-0255)

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