CVE-2005-0255: mozilla firefox
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2005-0255 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 4.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 2Timeline
- 28-02-2005PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 07-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
4.29%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
91%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 4.29% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Mozilla3 products
- firefox1.0
- mozilla1.7.3
- thunderbird0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.0
1 vendor · 3 products
References
13 links- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_mozilla_firefox.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource SUSEPatch
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9111VDB EntrySignatureX Refsource OVAL
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100040VDB EntrySignatureX Refsource OVAL
- www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=200&type=vulnerabilitiesThird Party AdvisoryX Refsource IDEFENSEPatchVendor Advisory