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CVE-2005-2265

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 violatio

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
2 on Exploit-DB, 1 Metasploit module

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Public exploit on Exploit-DB

    EDB-9947, EDB-16306

  3. Record last updated
  4. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

References 25

debian.org

novell.com

ciac.org

mozilla.org

bugzilla.redhat.com

secunia.com

redhat.com

vupen.com

oval.cisecurity.org

networksecurity.fi

securityfocus.com

bugzilla.mozilla.org

Exploit-DB

GitHub · rapid7/metasploit-framework