PT-2005-1296 · Mozilla · Mozilla Firefox

Luca Ercoli · Published 2005-02-06 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2005-0215

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 versions 1.6 and possibly other versions

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash. This can be achieved by using a XBM (X BitMap) file with a large height or width value.

Recommendations For Mozilla version 1.6, avoid using XBM files with large height or width values until a fix is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-0215

Affected Products

Mozilla Firefox

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-0215 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18803 · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110512665029209&w=2 · Note