CVE-2005-0592

Firefox - Heap-Based Buffer Overflow via UTF8ToNewUnicode Function

Title source: llm

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the UTF8ToNewUnicode function for Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 might allow 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.

References (10)

Core 10

Core References

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659

Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/19823

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-15.html

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241440

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100043

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10606

Scores

EPSS 0.0386

EPSS Percentile 89.0%

Details

Status published

Products (19)

mozilla/firefox 0.8

mozilla/firefox 0.9 (2 CPE variants)

mozilla/firefox 0.9.1

mozilla/firefox 0.9.2

mozilla/firefox 0.9.3

mozilla/firefox 0.10

mozilla/firefox 0.10.1

mozilla/firefox 1.0

mozilla/mozilla 1.3

mozilla/mozilla 1.4 (2 CPE variants)

... and 9 more

Published Mar 25, 2005

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026