Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Download Content-Disposition denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Mozilla Firefox 1.0. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Download Content-Disposition Handler. This manipulation causes denial of service. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2005-0255. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to swap out the affected component for an alternative.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Mozilla Firefox 1.0 (Web Browser). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Download Content-Disposition Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was released 03/01/2005 by Andreas Sandblad (taviso) with Secunia as MFSA2005-22 as not defined advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at mozilla.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2005-0255 since 02/09/2005. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 17270 (RHEL 4 : mozilla (RHSA-2005:277)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at mozilla.org. The problem might be mitigated by replacing the product with as an alternative. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be establishing an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (19522), Tenable (17270), SecurityFocus (BID 12659†), Secunia (SA14407†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-7245†). Additional details are provided at secunia.com. Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-1258, VDB-1257, VDB-1253 and VDB-1254. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 17270
Nessus Name: RHEL 4 : mozilla (RHSA-2005:277)
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OpenVAS ID: 54875
OpenVAS Name: Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200503-10 (Firefox)
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Recommended: Alternative
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Patch: mozilla.org

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03/10/2021 +5791 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: MFSA2005-22
Researcher: Andreas Sandblad (taviso)
Organization: Secunia
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2005-0255 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-0255
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-1261

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X-Force: 19522
SecurityFocus: 12659 - Mozilla Suite Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 14407 - Mozilla / Firefox / Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
Vulnerability Center: 7245 - DoS in Mozilla Browser 1.7.3 and Firefox 1.0 Resize String Functions, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/08/2005 12:03
Updated: 03/10/2021 17:19
Changes: 03/08/2005 12:03 (78), 11/12/2016 10:27 (6), 03/10/2021 17:16 (8), 03/10/2021 17:19 (1)
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