CVE-2005-4134

Description

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.

5.0

CVSS

Severity: Medium

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 27.69% Top 5%

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Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:036	vendor advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/275-1/	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19902	third party advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/21533	vdb entry
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:037	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/17944	third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438730/100/0/threaded	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19941	third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/17946	third party advisory vendor advisory
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=113405896025702&w=2	mailing list
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-February/msg00005.html	vendor advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-12.xml	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21622	third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19862	third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19230	third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/18704	third party advisory
http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/netscape-history.html
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-205.htm
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1051	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/18709	third party advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/271-1/	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/18705	third party advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-18.xml	vendor advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16476	vdb entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0413	vdb entry
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2006-03.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015328	vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/19746	third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21033	third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/18700	third party advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102550-1	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19759	third party advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0200.html	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/18706	third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/17934	third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15773	vdb entry
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-February/msg00006.html	vendor advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/history-title.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0199.html	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19863	third party advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425978/100/0/threaded	vendor advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11382	vdb entry signature
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060201-01-U	vendor advisory
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2006.26/SCOSA-2006.26.txt	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/18708	third party advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2805	vdb entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425975/100/0/threaded	vendor advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1619	vdb entry signature
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=113404911919629&w=2	mailing list
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-228526-1	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19852	third party advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3391	vdb entry
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1046	vendor advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1044	vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2005-4134?: CVE-2005-4134 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2005-4134?: To fix CVE-2005-4134, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2005-4134 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2005-4134 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~28% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.