CVE & CISA-KEV CatalogNVD
CVE-2005-2265
MEDIUMEPSS 99th pctl5.0
CVSS v2
Description
Firefox before 1.0.5, Mozilla before 1.7.9, and Netscape 8.0.2 and 7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (access violation and crash), and possibly execute arbitrary code, by calling InstallVersion.compareTo with an object instead of a string.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
68.10%probability of exploitation in 30 days
99thpercentile
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 99% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16043
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16044
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16059
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
- http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-252.shtml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-810
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-50.html
- http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/netscape-multiple-issues.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_45_mozilla.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-586.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-587.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-601.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14242
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1075
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295854
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160202
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100008
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10397
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A417
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A781
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