CVE-2005-2265

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 v2.0 NVD

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

68.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 99th percentile

Published

2005-07-13

Updated

2024-08-07

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295854

Metasploit modules (1)

• rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/mozilla_compareto…

ExploitDB entries (2)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16306
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9947

Security advisories

• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-50.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

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry