CVE-2005-4720

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.

CVSS v2.0

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

EPSS

8.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 95th percentile

Published

2006-02-15

Updated

2024-09-16

Proof-of-concept exploits (2)

• http://security-protocols.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2978
• http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x19-advisory.txt

ExploitDB entries (1)

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

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2005-4718
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• CVE-2005-4734