21533 : Multiple Browser Large History Entry DoS
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Timeline
Disclosure Date Exploit Publish Date
2005-12-07 2005-12-07

Description

 (Description Provided by CVE) : 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.

Classification

 Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability

Products
kmeleon.org
Watch-list
K-Meleon
Watch-list
 0.9
Netscape Communications Corporation
Watch-list
Netscape
Watch-list
 8.1

References

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Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-12-09 | Disagree?

Access_vector_2 Access_complexity_2 Authentication_2 Confidentiality_impact_0 Integrity_impact_0 Availability_impact_1

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