MitreCVELIST:CVE-2005-0255CVE-2005-0255
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.
References
secunia.com/advisories/19823
www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml
www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml
www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=200&type=vulnerabilities
www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-18.html
www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_mozilla_firefox.html
www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-277.html
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-337.html
www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100040
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9111
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