Record summary

CVE-2005-4134 has a selected CVSS score of 5.0; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.

Description

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.

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

Available material

Catalogued exploits
1

Proofs of concept

1

Catalogued exploits

ExploitDBMozilla Firefox 0.x/1.x - Large History File Buffer OverflowExploitDB exploitby ZIPLOCKNot analyzed1 file
ExploitDB

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