CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
99.5%
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.