Mozilla up to 1.8 HTML Tag TEXTAREA/INPUT/FRAMESET/IMG denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Mozilla up to 1.8 and classified as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function of the component HTML Tag Handler. This manipulation of the argument TEXTAREA/INPUT/FRAMESET/IMG causes denial of service. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-1613. There is not any exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla up to 1.8 (Web Browser). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component HTML Tag Handler. The manipulation of the argument TEXTAREA/INPUT/FRAMESET/IMG 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:

Mozilla allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash from null dereference or infinite loop) via a web page that contains a (1) TEXTAREA, (2) INPUT, (3) FRAMESET or (4) IMG tag followed by a null character and some trailing characters, as demonstrated by mangleme.

The weakness was released 10/18/2004 by Michal Zalewski (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at marc.info. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2004-1613 since 02/20/2005. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 17624 (RHEL 2.1 / 3 : mozilla (RHSA-2005:323)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 6 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (17805), Tenable (17624), SecurityFocus (BID 11439†), OSVDB (15382†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1011810†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-834, VDB-923, VDB-920 and VDB-922. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Type

• Web Browser

Name

• Mozilla

Version

• 1.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.2.1
• 1.3
• 1.3.1
• 1.4
• 1.4.1
• 1.4.2
• 1.4.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.7.1
• 1.7.2
• 1.7.3
• 1.8

License

• open-source

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.1

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 17624
Nessus Name: RHEL 2.1 / 3 : mozilla (RHSA-2005:323)
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

10/18/2004 🔍
10/18/2004 +0 days 🔍
10/18/2004 +0 days 🔍
10/18/2004 +0 days 🔍
10/20/2004 +2 days 🔍
02/20/2005 +123 days 🔍
03/23/2005 +31 days 🔍
03/25/2005 +2 days 🔍
04/07/2005 +13 days 🔍
04/14/2015 +3659 days 🔍
05/31/2019 +1508 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: marc.info
Researcher: Michal Zalewski
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2004-1613 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-1613
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-22291

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X-Force: 17805
SecurityFocus: 11439 - Mozilla Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities
OSVDB: 15382 - Mozilla - Multiple Memory Corruption Issues
SecurityTracker: 1011810
Vulnerability Center: 7523 - DoS in Mozilla Browser via HTML Tags, Low

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Entryinfo

Created: 04/14/2015 13:21
Updated: 05/31/2019 10:11
Changes: 04/14/2015 13:21 (73), 05/31/2019 10:11 (4)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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