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CVE-2005-4134

medium · 5

Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Netscape 8.0.4 and 7.2, and K-Meleon before 0.9.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and delayed application startup) via a web site with a large title, which is recorded in history.dat but not processed efficiently during startup. NOTE: despite initial reports, the Mozilla vendor does not believe that this issue can be used to trigger a crash or buffer overflow in Firefox. Also, it has been independently reported that Netscape 8.1 does not have this issue.

5
CVSS
12.6%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
96th
EPSS percentile
2005-12-09
Published

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

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
k-meleon_projectk-meleon<= 0.9
k-meleon_projectk-meleon0.7
k-meleon_projectk-meleon0.7_service_pack_1
k-meleon_projectk-meleon0.8
k-meleon_projectk-meleon0.8.1
k-meleon_projectk-meleon0.8.2
mozillafirefox<= 1.5
mozillamozilla_suite<= 1.7.12
netscapenavigator<= 8.0.40
netscapenavigator7.1
netscapenavigator7.2

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References

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