PT-2004-2545 · Mozilla · Firefox+2

Published 2004-10-26 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2004-1639

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 0.10 Mozilla version 5.0 Gecko version 20040913

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in application crash or memory consumption, by sending a large binary file with a .html extension.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 0.10, update to a version later than 0.10 to resolve the issue. For Mozilla version 5.0, consider disabling the handling of large binary files with .html extensions as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. For Gecko version 20040913, restrict access to large binary files to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2004-1639

Affected Products

Gecko

Mozilla Firefox

Firefox

References · 4

• 🔥 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2004-q4/0017.html · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-1639 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17839 · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109886388528179&w=2 · Note