PT-2005-1640 · Mozilla+1 · Mozilla Firefox+2

Wind Li · Published 2005-02-28 · Updated 2017-10-11 · CVE-2005-0592

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox versions prior to 1.0.1 Mozilla versions prior to 1.7.6

Description A heap-based buffer overflow issue exists in the UTF8ToNewUnicode function, potentially allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via invalid sequences in a UTF8 encoded string that result in a zero length value.

Recommendations For Firefox versions prior to 1.0.1, update to version 1.0.1 or later to resolve the issue. For Mozilla versions prior to 1.7.6, update to version 1.7.6 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-0592

RHSA-2005:176

RHSA-2005_176

Affected Products

Firefox

Mozilla Firefox

Red Hat

References · 40

• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-15.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-0592 · Security Note
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241440 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-0255.html · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-0585.html · Note
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100043 · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-0592.html · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-0527.html · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-0591.html · Note