FKIE_CVE-2005-2265
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2005-07-13 04:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:14
Severity
Summary
Firefox before 1.0.5, Mozilla before 1.7.9, and Netscape 8.0.2 and 7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (access violation and crash), and possibly execute arbitrary code, by calling InstallVersion.compareTo with an object instead of a string.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| mozilla | firefox | 0.8 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 0.9 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 0.9 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 0.9.1 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 0.9.2 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 0.9.3 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 0.10 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 0.10.1 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.0 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.0.1 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.0.2 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.0.3 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 1.0.4 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.3 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.4 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.4 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.4.1 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.5 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.5 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.5 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.5 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.5.1 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.6 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.6 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.6 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.7 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.7 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.7 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.7 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.7 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.7 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.7.1 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.7.2 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.7.3 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.7.5 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.7.6 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.7.7 | |
| mozilla | mozilla | 1.7.8 |
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