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CVE-2005-0255 Details

Description

String handling functions in Mozilla 1.7.3, Firefox 1.0, and Thunderbird before 1.0.2, such as the nsTSubstring_CharT::Replace function, do not properly check the return values of other functions that resize the string, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code by forcing an out-of-memory state that causes a reallocation to fail and return a pointer to a fixed address, which leads to heap corruption.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://secunia.com/advisories/19823 CVE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100040 CVE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9111 CVE
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml CVEPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml CVEPatchVendor Advisory

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
NVD-CWE-OtherWeakness Not in a Standard CWE Category[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
mozilla firefox
1.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
mozilla mozilla
1.7.3

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:mozilla:1.7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
mozilla thunderbird
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2005-0255
NVD Published Date:
May 2, 2005
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 16, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2005-0255 Details - Not Deferred