Modified
This vulnerability has been modified since it was last analyzed by the NVD. It is awaiting reanalysis which may result in further changes to the information provided.
Current Description
Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Netscape 8.0.4 and 7.2, and K-Meleon before 0.9.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and delayed application startup) via a web site with a large title, which is recorded in history.dat but not processed efficiently during startup. NOTE: despite initial reports, the Mozilla vendor does not believe that this issue can be used to trigger a crash or buffer overflow in Firefox. Also, it has been independently reported that Netscape 8.1 does not have this issue.
Source:
MITRE
Description Last Modified:
12/09/2005
View Analysis Description
Analysis Description
** DISPUTED ** NOTE: the vendor disputes the reported severity of this issue. Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Netscape 8.0.4 and 7.2, and K-Meleon before 0.9.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and delayed application startup) via a web site with a large title, which is recorded in history.dat but not processed efficiently during startup. NOTE: despite initial reports, the Mozilla vendor does not believe that this issue can be used to trigger a crash or buffer overflow in Firefox.
Source:
MITRE
Description Last Modified:
12/09/2005
Impact
CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:
Base Score:
5.0 MEDIUM
Vector:
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
(V2 legend)
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
Access Vector (AV):
Network
Access Complexity (AC):
Low
Authentication (AU):
None
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
Partial
Additional Information:
Allows disruption of service
Evaluator Solution
This issue was fixed in K-Meleon version 0.9.12.
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Change History
5 change records found
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CVE Modified by MITRE -
10/19/2018 11:40:08 AM
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http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425975/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] |
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http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425978/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] |
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http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438730/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] |
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http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/438730/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] |
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http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/425978/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] |
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http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/425975/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] |
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CVE Modified by MITRE -
10/3/2018 5:34:19 PM
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https://usn.ubuntu.com/271-1/ [No Types Assigned] |
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https://usn.ubuntu.com/275-1/ [No Types Assigned] |
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http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-271-1 [No Types Assigned] |
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http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-275-1 [No Types Assigned] |
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CVE Modified by MITRE -
10/10/2017 9:30:29 PM
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https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11382 [No Types Assigned] |
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https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1619 [No Types Assigned] |
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http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11382 [No Types Assigned] |
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http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1619 [Tool Signature, US Government Resource] |
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CVE Modified by Source -
10/17/2016 11:38:02 PM
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http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=113404911919629&w=2 |
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http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=113405896025702&w=2 |
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http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=full-disclosure&m=113404911919629&w=2 |
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http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=full-disclosure&m=113405896025702&w=2 |
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Initial CVE Analysis -
12/9/2005 4:55:00 PM