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CVE-2005-0989

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 10.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The find_replen function in jsstr.c in the Javascript engine for Mozilla Suite 1.7.6, Firefox 1.0.1 and 1.0.2, and Netscape 7.2 allows remote attackers to read portions of heap memory in a Javascript string via the lambda replace method.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: 1.0.1, 1.0.2
• Mozilla: 1.7.6
• Netscape Navigator: 7.2

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/14820
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14821
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1013635
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1013643
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200504-18.xml
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-33.html
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-383.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-386.html

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