CVE-2005-2414

Published Aug 3, 2005

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

Description: Race condition in the xpcom library, as used by web browsers such as Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, and Galeon, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large HTML file that loads a DOM call from within nested DIV tags, which causes part of the currently rendering page and referenced objects to be deleted.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 2.6
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 4.9
Vector string: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:xpcom:xpcom:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "B491A4A7-C60F-4E62-A877-B86BD03C56ED"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References