CVE-2005-2265

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 68.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-07-13 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Firefox before 1.0.5, Mozilla before 1.7.9, and Netscape 8.0.2 and 7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (access violation and crash), and possibly execute arbitrary code, by calling InstallVersion.compareTo with an object instead of a string.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 0.8, 0.9, 0.9-rc, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3 (+7)
Mozilla: 1.3, 1.4, 1.4-alpha, 1.4.1, 1.5, 1.5-alpha (+19)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/16043
http://secunia.com/advisories/16044
http://secunia.com/advisories/16059
http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-252.shtml
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-810
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-50.html
http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/netscape-multiple-issues.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_45_mozilla.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-586.html

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