CVE-2005-4720

Mozilla Firefox <= 1.0.7 - Denial of Service via IFRAME WIDTH Attribute

Title source: llm

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2005-4720. PoCs published by Tom Ferris.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates a denial of service vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox by using a malformed IFRAME with an excessively large WIDTH attribute, causing the browser to crash or consume excessive resources.

Description

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 and earlier on Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client crash) via an IFRAME element with a large value of the WIDTH attribute, which triggers a problem related to representation of floating-point numbers, leading to an infinite loop of widget resizes and a corresponding large number of function calls on the stack.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED

by Tom Ferris · textdosmultiple

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/26325

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This exploit demonstrates a denial of service vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox by using a malformed IFRAME with an excessively large WIDTH attribute, causing the browser to crash or consume excessive resources.

Classification

Working Poc 90%

Attack Type

Dos

Complexity

Trivial

Reliability

Reliable

Target: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 and 1.0.7 (Linux)

No auth needed

Prerequisites: Victim must visit a webpage containing the malicious IFRAME

MITRE ATT&CK