CVE-2004-1613

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-10-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash from null dereference or infinite loop) via a web page that contains a (1) TEXTAREA, (2) INPUT, (3) FRAMESET or (4) IMG tag followed by a null character and some trailing characters, as demonstrated by mangleme.

Affected products

Mozilla: 1.0, 1.0-rc1, 1.0-rc2, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1 (+22)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 2.1, 3.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 3.0
RedHat Fedora Core: core_1.0, core_2.0
RedHat Linux: 7.3, 9.0
RedHat Linux Advanced Workstation: 2.1
Sgi Propack: 3.0

References

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/mangleme/gallery/
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-October/027709.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109811406620511&w=2
http://securitytracker.com/id?1011810
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-323.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11439
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17805
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10227
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/mangleme/gallery/
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-October/027709.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109811406620511&w=2
http://securitytracker.com/id?1011810

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